On 5/23/03 6:54 AM, "Jimmy Wales" <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Don't blame me! The problem is that what is
defined on
[[Wikipedia:NPOV]] != "neutral point of view". That is, the concept
denoted by the four letters NPOV, as defined within the Wikipedia
context, is not congruous to the concept denoted by the phrase "neutral
point of view".
This is a basic problem.
Fair enough, I suppose. It's jargon, and jargon is dangerous in that
way.
I'd recommend changing it, but it's so well entrenched in our culture
now, that...
The important thing to do before (talking about) changing it is to figure
out what it actually means, which we can do by looking at how "NPOV" is used
in context.