On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:09:12 +0200, Elisabeth Bauer elian@djini.de wrote:
That's the technical part. The other thing I want to propose is a change to our NPOV policy.
At the moment it says: "articles should have a neutral point of view." This dates back to the time where people had confidence that in the wiki process, in the struggle between adherents of different views after some time a good NPOV version finally emerges. I don't believe in this (I never did, actually). Yes, sometimes it happens, but only if non-involved people put a lot of effort in establishing compromises, moderating the conflicts and so on.
NPOV policy should be: "authors should write from a neutral point of view."
Of course, that's an ideal. You can never completely leave your personal views aside. But the important is: you can try. People who openly work for pushing POV in an article, shouldn't be allowed to edit that article at all. NPOV policy is not about "I insert my propaganda into an article and let others do the tedious taks of neutralizing it", it's "do your best to write from a neutral point of view. And if you are unable to do so, leave the article alone". And this policy should be enforced by the community.
I agree with this change.