Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote: Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT), Pro-Lick wrote:
POV pushing on Wikipedia is pushing an opinion that is inconsistent with what verifiable sources provide.
Really? I have seen verifiable content soundly rejected by the active editors of an article on the grounds that, while verifiable, it represented such a minority view as to be essentially irrelevant - merely mentioning it accorded it undue weight.
Evidently, for some any view other than theirs represents an irrelevant minority. :-) Ec
I don't have any problem with the example JzG provides. I was hoping when I wrote the POV line that there was already enough context. I should have provided more. So, for future consideration on the issue of what is and is not tendentious, my revised version:
POV pushing on Wikipedia is pushing an opinion that is inconsistent with what the majority of verifiable sources provide or disproportionate with how other verifiable minority views are presented.
That seems to summarize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POV_pushing well too. The article goes a bit further and states that it applies if "only one point of view" is shown. That article is not policy or guideline, however (which isn't a statement as to whether or not it should be).~~~~Pro-Lick
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