"Captured"(???) and "Correct"(!!!)? Those aren't good alternatives
to "Neutral".
The closest synonyms I can find to "neutral" which really get the same
meaning are "evenhanded", "impartial", and "disinterested".
Even these
are a bit too close to "objective" which is not the same thing as
"neutral" at all (you can be objective without being neutral).
Neutral is a great word. Instead of worrying about people
misunderstanding the acronym, which should take more time to explain
it to them, and try to avoid using acronyms alltogether if possible
(they are in-community practices which are opaque and potentially
misleading to those who are not used to them -- WP:FU is a great
example!).
FF
On 6/24/06, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, POV is nearly always good NPOV unless it's
OR.
We should really change the name NPOV. It's too confusing. The policy
is spot on but nobody knows what the acronym NPOV means.
I would prefer, say, CPOV. Captured POV or Correct POV. NPOV suggests
*Not* POV; whereas POV is absolutely fine.
*Seriously*.
Page move anyone?
On 25/06/06, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu <jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi,
With the caveat that I haven't looked carefully at either the AN discussion,
the RFC, nor the article in question...
Quoting Conrad Dunkerson <conrad.dunkerson(a)worldnet.att.net>et>:
To me that looks like the >admin< was
violating NPOV by trying to write
the article from the 'most popular point of view' rather than the NEUTRAL
point of view...
...it would be easy to (mis?)read the above as a statement that we are
attempting to find some sort of absolute neutrality between points of view. It
isn't a violation of [[WP:NPOV]] to write a synthesis of mainstream thinking and
identify fringe views as fringe views. Our actual policy goes into some detail
about this, and takes a much less naive view of neutrality than is often
attributed to it.
Jkelly
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