Toby Bartels wrote:
Since "NPOV" has never meant
«encyclopaedic»,
I don't see the need to change letters to clarify.
Yes!
And if I understand my Wikipedia history right,
Jimbo's concept of NPOV predated the -pedias (even Nu-).
Hmm, I'm not sure about that.
Probably the phrase originated in emails between me and Larry during
the early days of Nupedia and possibly not until the early days of
Wikipedia. It'd be an interesting history project to try to find out.
I don't save all my emails, though. Some I do, some I don't.
Larry preferred the term 'unbiased', and with some good reason, but I
always felt that 'NPOV' better avoided a lot of sticky epistemological
issues about Truth With A Capital T. It's a social concept, not an
epistemological concept.
--Jimbo