[WikiEN-l] Re: NPOV

Sun Nov 16 09:06:39 UTC 2003

On Saturday 15 November 2003 04:09, Sheldon Rampton wrote:
> Cunctator wrote:
> >A brief summary of what I'd like to see as the policy:
> >Yes. Fortunately we can rely on the pool of perfectly accurate,
> >non-propagandizing, value-judgmentless historical references to do so.
> >
> >Oops, they don't exist.
>
> Actually, they do. For example, "Napoleon Bonaparte died on May 5,
> 1821" is a statement whose accuracy no one seriously disputes, and it
> doesn't carry any particular propaganda or value judgments. Whether

Some believe that Napoleon was poisoned. Not mentioning that in a sentence 
about his death is inaccurate to them.