"David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote in
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I wrote:
SlimVirgin wrote:
It reads too
much like an attempt to invalidate Neutral Point Of View
and instead install Sympathetic Point Of View for living subjects.
And I see
someone on the talk page already thinks this is a cue to abandon
NPOV.
If that's a reference to my comment, I'm not advocating any such thing. I
merely want to make sure that the risks of harming an innocent third party
should be carefully considered.
OTOH, if it's the section further down commenced by [[en:user:Stevage]],
then I take your point: ".placating potentially injured parties, even if
that involves a minor violation of NPOV" is a slippery slope we should not
be allowing anywhere near us. If it's been published in a newspaper, then
the facts themselves are fair game, even if the subject is not: I would have
thought that a biography stating "X was the subject of a malicious
allegation of misbehaviour in Y newspaper which turned out to be fabricatory
cobblers" might actually be doing the subject a favour...neutrally of course
:-).
HTH HAND
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Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]