JAY JG wrote:
Thus, hypothetically, if Cheese Dreams had said Jesus was born in 100 BCE, and Steven had insisted it was 4 BCE, the mediator would have insisted that they should both compromise and say that Jesus was born in 52 BCE.
More often than not, a root of the problem is the POV-pusher (and often the valiant defender) has not read [[WP:NPOV]] at all, or maybe has only read it quickly once. In your example above, both editors could be sentenced to read it twice and do a report on it. Then they might com up with the singularly NPOV idea that P-ists says P and Q-ists say Q. These disputes are usually not all that difficult; the combatants simply lack a common framework, and they spend all their time digging in against each other instead of finding common ground. Adam Carr in this case could have done much better at winning over Peter as a true Wikipedia ally.
Tom Haws