At 12:48 AM 8/16/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Rick wrote:
>
>>Steve Vertigowrote:
>>
>> I think we ought to list each of the recall
>> candidates, and invite their staffs to add to their
>> articles.
>>
>> Crazy? :)
>>
>> http://www.sfgate.com/gate/special/pages/2003/recall/
>> http://www.georgyforgov.com/index.htm ! ! go geeks!
>>
>> I strongly disagree. How could they possibly give us NPOV articles?
>The NPOV requirement does not make them inelligible as subjets. Obviously,
>if any of the 135 dodn't have a POV he or she would not be running for
>office. :-) NPOV editing involves fairly representing what each of these
>candidates is about. After saying this is whate the candidate stands for,
>NPOV does not required that we have to dig up the opposing point of view.
Also, I suspect that a lot of them would provide NPOV autobiographical
information: "Jo Candidate was born in $city on $date, educated at
$college, and sold ice cream door-to-door before becoming a $professional."
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I never said that they couldn't be NPOV articles, merely that they or their campaign staffs could not give us NPOV.
RickK