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

[Philip Welch]

> While we're at it, anyone care to deal with the term "POV-pusher"? It
> seems to me legitimate for someone to take an underrepresented but
> valid point of view (eg, "The US is not the centre of everything worth
> describing on Wikipedia"), and systematically adapting articles to
> include this point of view. If someone distorts an article to the
> point where it over-represents a minority viewpoint, that would be one
> thing. But systematically expanding the range of viewpoints in
> articles to include a more global viewpoint...

POV pushers exist, and if we ban the term, we'll come up with another  
term to replace it. We have to realize that increasingly, there are  
editors who act in bad faith to popularize a given viewpoint or agenda.

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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch