[WikiEN-l] Re: photography and POV

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sat May 17 17:49:39 UTC 2003


The Cunctator wrote:

>On 5/17/03 10:48 AM, "koyaanis qatsi" <obchodnakorze at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Maybe we could set up a page on meta discussing photos
>>and POV.  the topic has come up at least twice on
>>wikipedia in the last year, though I'm not sure where.
>>I thought one of them was [[talk:Rachel Corrie]] but
>>it wasn't.  then I thought maybe [[talk:Saddam
>>Hussein]] and yes, somewhat, but that's also not the
>>discussion I was thinking of.
>>
>
>As I've said, a big part of the broken usage of POV and NPOV on Wikipedia to
>mean something other than what God intended.
>
>(Namely, that the neutral point of view is a Platonic ideal.)
>
As they used to say back on The Farm:  "All Points of View are neutral 
but some are more neutral than others." ;-)

Ec




More information about the WikiEN-l mailing list