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