From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Nick Boalch
Nick Boalch wrote:
>> Accordingly on other articles, different
points of view need
>> to be included based on their prominence and level of support
>> in the real world, not just on which happens to be most
>> popular among the Wikipedia editing community.
>
> That's the problem. In theory, theory and practice are
identical. In
practice,
they aren't.
WP articles are not written by the general community, they are
written by editors, usually a handful of core contributors. NPOV
works out to what these editors agree it is, simply because nobody
else has any significant input.
Indeed. The point is that those editors
...should agree on what is NPOV based on the mixture of
points-of-view *in the real world*, not just on their own opinions.
(Oops.)
Yeah, I was wondering what happened - if only we could edit our posts, hey?
But you keep on saying what WP "should" be like. I'm not disagreeing with
you on this. I'm merely saying that what actually happens is often a long
way from ideal.
--
Peter in Canberra