--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
In the long term it will be desirable to have multiple
views on an article
besides NPOV, whether it's a Wikinews story or a Wikipedia article.
Duplication can be avoided using powerful diff/merging tools as they are
already used in the open source development world (darcs, BitKeeper etc.).
Each view will be managed by a group of people who make their own rules as
to who else is allowed to add information, with NPOV being the "mother
view" from which other views can be extracted (as NPOV is the most
inclusive).
That is moving away from NPOV and creates POV editor groups; both are dangerous
to the project. I don't expect you will get any traction in that direction, so
I won't waste much time on this topic.
But having NPOV articles that described in detail the views of particular
groups of people are fine; they just need to be correctly titled and qualified.
This is just a more focused form of NPOV where less relevant material gets an
appropriate amount of coverage. It is a fallacy to assume that NPOV means we
can only have very general articles (not that I'm saying you ascribe to that
fallacy).
If people want to have a biased instead of an NPOV encyclopedia, then they can
start one any time they wish, but it will not be part of Wikimedia.
-- mav
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