LittleDan wrote:
I'd say NPOV is more like a meta-POV. Unlike the
meta-POV of choosing one specific POV and teaching it,
NPOV treats all different POVs equally. It is on a
whole different level that bias.
Yes.
I think that it's been widely acknowledged since early on
(certainly since before I arrived on the scene in 2002)
that "neutral point of view" is a bit of a misnomer.
That phrase implies that there is some point of view
that is neutral, and we are choosing that point of view.
It's not true that there is such a point of view, of course;
more to the point, that's not what "NPOV" is intended to mean.
[[wp:fr:]]'s "Neutralité de point de vue" is (a bit) better.
There is no way to create a wiki that covers all
encyclopedic topics, yet we still aim for it.
Similarly, we can escape *some* subjective bias, and
we should do as much as we can.
Right.
We should recognise that nothing that we write is purely NPOV.
Always, we must strive to make things better and better --
in every way, including that one.
-- Toby