[WikiEN-l] Re: Proposed policy on biographies: input sought

Mon Dec 19 22:08:33 UTC 2005

<slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote

>It may be a form of NPOV, but it's poor writing and a violation of
NOR, because it's putting together a synthesis of published material
in a novel way in order to build a case.

But NPOV is _not_ a doctrine about 'balance', which is what your example of 
a frantic search to find a 'critical dimension' suggests.  And in any case 
using the 'rules' as discrete things is the explanation for novices - 
newbies have to be told things one at a time.  WP experience tends to 
develop a writing style that is well within the parameters.

Charles 