On 4/10/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
- Ads are incompatible with NPOV
I've never understood this: how are they incompatible? NPOV applies
to articles only (as the userbox people are so keen to point out).
Articles are what's in the div wrapper "content", i.e. the article
content.
OK, if we take the assumption that advertising inherently is
non-neutral, Wikipedia (and, indeed, the Wikimedia Foundation) does
not need to be neutral. Of course, in an ideal world, we would be
utterly and totally neutral, but this isn't an ideal world. Why
shouldn't the Foundation publicise those who are keen to give us
backing? This is just a smaller scale version of
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Benefactors
Our role is not to produce a neutral website. It is to produce
neutral and factual content.
--
Sam