[WikiEN-l] popular POV not NPOV?

Mon Jun 26 03:53:12 UTC 2006

G'day Fred,

[rm top-posted thing]

>>On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, Philip Welch wrote:
>>
>>>I think we should replace "neutral point of view" (which is
>>>abbreviated to the misunderstood acronym NPOV) to
>>>"neutrality" (which, like "verifiability", is easier to understand).
> 
> We already have trouble with editors who try to use neutral washed  
> out language rather than allowing opposing points of view to be fully  
> expressed.

Thank goodness for WikInfo!

Cheers,

-- 
Mark Gallagher
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being struck by thunderbolts all the time, which must have distracted 
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