Dnia Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:40:20 +0100, Milos Rancic napisał(a):
NPOV is a global policy across all projects and is older than the foundation or wikibooks. It is non-negotiable from the start.
But, where to put something like "Impressionist analysis of Orwell's 1984."? This is useful for learning about a book, but this is inherently POV.
So, where to put such papers?
The problem with essays is that you can find many people having different opinions on the same topic and therefore able to write different essays covering this topic. These essays can contradict themselves. Wikimedia projects were created to provide readers with accurate knowledge; you can always correct factual errors in essays but you cannot correct personal interpretation of the facts. There will always be fundamental conflicts between various essays, people may argue about them endlessly and I think it's not what we want. Prohibition of expressing personal point of view in Wikimedia projects is a protection against self-promotion of amateur authors and nonsenses in their writing.