[WikiEN-l] Clutch is on a POV tirade

[Jonathan Walther]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 04:05:53AM -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>Disputes over NPOV are not unusual and not, generally, problematic.
>But I do hate to see someone on a rant who clearly has no intention of
>accomodating other people's views in the least.
>
>Clutch, notice that "It's true" is not usually a defense against a
>charge of POV.  I could write, on a page about North Korea, that it is
>led by muderous tyrants with no right to exist, much less right to
>nuclear weapons.  Well, that's true.  But it is still not NPOV.

I wasn't obstructing NPOV, but I was obstructing peoples attempts to
make sure that the POV shared by myself and countless others was
eliminated from the article.

In other words, there was no lack of accomodation, just protest that
people tried to eliminate what I wrote entirely.  If you look at the
beginning of the edit war, someone summarily reverted my addition to the
article, instead of incorporation my information.  When, later on,
someone did incorporate my information, I worked forward from that.

If warnings are in order, I think they should be directed at those who
want to silence any view other than their own.

Jonathan

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