On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
This comes into endless conflict with our stated mission of creating an unbiased yet comprehensive free encyclopedia. Nonetheless, we've done an outstanding job. We've got the world's attention, but we need to figure out how to take it to the next level.
I am increasingly coming to believe that NPOV does not lead to an unbiased encyclopedia, but rather an encyclopedia that is biased against idiocy. There's a wide number of totalizing POVs - Church of Scientology springs to mind - that can't function in a NPOV environment because they deny the existence of multiple points of view. These POVs are excluded. We are biased against them.
As well we should be, but still. It's a key distinction, and one that I think plays into other parts of this debate.
-Snowspinner