Geoff Burling wrote:
I'm throwing out an argument against the concept
that an encyclopedia
should be "informative, not instructional", based on one datum: for many
years (perhaps even now, but at least into the 1960's) it was not
uncommon for people to teach themselves how to play chess from the article
in the encyclopedia.
POV: A chessboard has 64 squares.
NPOV: Experts claim that a chessboard has 64 squares.
I wonder where this leads us. :-)
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