On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:08 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Myself, I consider NPOV as what distinguishes an
encyclopedia from
promotion and advocacy.
I don't think Wales or Sanger or whoever invented the term "NPOV"
discovered
the concept, so I'd avoid using that newly invented term to describe it.
Agreed it is hard to get there completely, but
the effort to approximate it is what makes Wikipedia a
work of
reference, and conservopedia a joke. ~~~~
Sometimes I think Wikipedia goes too far in the other direction, though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Objectivity_(journalism)&diff…