[WikiEN-l] Neutral point of view

Ian Woollard ian.woollard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 17:31:26 UTC 2008


On 13/04/2008, Jonas Rand <joeyyuan at cox.net> wrote:
>  Wikipedia has a big flaw: neutrality. The core principle of writing from a
>  "neutral" point of view is contradictory: it has a point of view in itself,
>  and the point of view is supposedly against points of view. In the wacky
>  world of hypocrites and liars, there is such a thing as a point of view
>  without viewpoints. In reality, however, facts are limited and mostly things
>  are opinions, philosophies, viewpoints, or lies.

But that's not the goal of neutrality! The goal of neutrality is to
*collect* all signficant points of views and represent them in the
wikipedia!

-- 
-Ian Woollard

We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.



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