On May 14, 2004, at 1:34 AM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Your distortion of NPOV as an excuse for getting rid of something you don't like in Wikipedia boggles the imagination! Deletion is also an expression of POV, as been pointed out in the discussion about offensive images. And what could be so offensive about the recipes?
I should be clearer: not including any chocolate cake recipe (because there's more than one) does not express a POV, except a POV on what should be in an encyclopedia. But that's a meta- POV and not what I meant. Is that what you meant.
I have no objection to documenting ALL the ways to put in a light bulb. (There are more than one ways.) Just because the first person to post on the subject has only presented one way of doing something does not in itself make that contribution POV. If it is the only POV it is necessarily neutral. If there are other POVs, the solution begins with others presenting them, not with censoring the one that's already there.
Unless it's unfeasible to include every POV, such as every chocolate cake recipe, which I think it is, in an encyclopedia. A wiki(cook)book, on the other hand, would do nicely.
I'm sorry, but I have a hard time suffering fools gladly.
I wouldn't have it any other way, Ec. :)
Peter
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