[Wikipedia-l] recipes

Thu Jan 20 05:06:48 UTC 2005

I don't know, I personally think it's POV in most cases to quote
something as a representation of an entire work - you might take it
out of context, or it might not be the "good part" (or you may think
it is but others disagree), some might say it misrepresents the work,
etc.

Mark

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:59:14 -0800, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Sj wrote:
> 
> >
> >Choosing one recipe to represent the collection of possibilities for a
> >dish is no more POV than choosing one quote to represent a poem, book,
> >film, or famous wit.
> >
> Hear hear. I'm just waiting for someone to complain that articles
> shouldn't mention specific examples of a general concept, because
> picking an example makes it seem more important than the unmentioned
> examples, and we can't have pictures, because it's "POV" to only
> depict one object and not any of the others...
> 
> NPOV is a technique to cope with intractable disputes, not some
> kind of weirdo Wikipedian-only quasi-religion. :-)
> 
> Stan
> 
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