[WikiEN-l] NPOV writing about extreme right-wing topics

Tue Feb 22 15:09:28 UTC 2005

=>From: Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk>
=>
=>I posit that Wikipedia
=>would be better off with a well-behaved, NPOV-writing Neo-Nazi than 
=>without;
=>could such an individual exist?
=
=I agree with this in theory; I've just never met one who fit the
criteria.
=
=Jay.

You've met *me*, and we all know that Unificationists are well to the
right of Adolf Hitler. I'm the most conservative, homophobic,
anti-scientific, pro-brainwashing, POV-pushing contributor to Wikipedia.
(Er, to hear others tell it, anyway ;-)

And yet I manage to write so neutrally on many topics that people
regularly come to me for help when there's an edit war on all sorts of
controversial articles. (Except those topics on which I have known blind
spots). 

So it *is* possible for a writer to temper their extreme POV and write
neutrally.

Ed "The thick-skinned one" Poor
aka Uncle Ed