Jimmy Wales wrote in part:
Larry preferred the term 'unbiased', and with some good reason, but I always felt that 'NPOV' better avoided a lot of sticky epistemological issues about Truth With A Capital T. It's a social concept, not an epistemological concept.
"neutral point of view" is problematic, in that it's not a POV at all. [[fr:]] says "la neutralité de point de vue", which is subtly different: "the neutrality of point of view".
-- Toby