On 12/18/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, the law is
much trickier and more gray than that, and Wikipedia
editors need to get out of the notion that they can use original
research to outline arguments and pontificate about what the "true
facts" are. As well, we really have no idea what people believe, we
only know what they say and do. Thus, you can state,
"A number of authors have stated X[cite][cite], while legal scholars
have stated Y[cite][cite][cite]", but that's as far as we can go, and
indeed, as far as we need to go. It makes the point equally well
without the smell of argumentative POV-pushing.
Stated is much better than believe, yes, excellent point. I'm not sure
what your saying in your first sentence though...
What I was saying was that regarding legal opinion, we don't tell
people what is "correct", we just tell them what legal scholars have
said on the matter. The latter meets [[WP:NPOV]], the former does not.
Jay.