[WikiEN-l] Blue sky thinking around "neutral point of view"

[Jon]

Just some blue sky thinking:
   
  Our neutral point of view policy has aroused a fair bit of discussion at [[WP:NPOV]]
  recently, and this has got me thinking:
   
  We've all seen arguments where people keep arguing that this is "POV" or someone
  is being "POV" where in normal English we'd just call something an "opinion" and
  note that someone has an opinion on something. Indeed, the made-up term POV
  is bandied around usually to mean something along the lines of - you are wrong,
  I am right, and because it is a NPOV issue, the point is non-negotiable, which isn't
  a very good place to start from if the issue is to be resolved. Plus far too many
  people read NPOV as equating to "no point of view" as opposed to the real requirement, which is to write from a neutral viewpoint.
   
  My blue sky thinking (which I don't claim to be a panacea, just an interesting thought) is why don't we rename the policy page [[Wikipedia:Neutral viewpoint]] and make
  the shortcut link to it [[WP:NEUVIEW]] (or [[WP:NEUTVIEW]]). It goes without
  saying that the underlying concept behind the policy would remain completely
  unchanged - just the name of the page would change - plus it would enhance
  people's perceptions that it is about requiring a neutral viewpoint, rather than no
  viewpoint, or neutrality more generally: it would help define the policy in positive terms
  and (and perhaps I'm going too far here:) ) may help stop content disputes escalating
  in scale and viciousness.
   
  Kind regards
   
  Jon
  (jguk)

		
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