I don't believe so. I came upon it in RC while working on MWT and taking a break by fighting some vandalism (relaxing AND productive, although it proves that i need to get a life). I contacted the user about it:
"Hi there, I noticed you've been adding to [[Pentecostal Mission]]. Thankyou for your contributions to Wikipedia; they are much valued. However, please remember that Wikipedia [[WP:NPOV|follows a neutral point of view]]. As a result, we cannot assert the existence of any particular divine being, referring to god with a capital G and as 'Himself' violates this policy. Please do not be discouraged from editing; just in future be aware that we may have to modify your contributions slightly so as not to imply the superiority of any particular religion over another. [...] "
I don't think there's been any significant attempt at removing the POV, nor has there been any obvious attempt to put it back in after it has been removed.
{{fact}} seems a little... mean. I know that sounds childish, but [[WP:BITE]], its true. One of the editors in the last 50 changes actually has a userpage (besides the CVU members RVing), while another has a talk page only because a newbie unfamiliar with policy (unsigned comment) has asked him if he is really who his username implies him to be. The rest are IP editors.
I don't really care about this article in particular, I mean on a whole. Is there some sort of POV taskforce / wikiproject? I know there's some sort of taskforce for 'countering systematic bias' but I'm not so sure how it works or how effective it is.
On 9/12/06, Matt R matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
"The ministers or the saints of God are called by God Himself through dreams and visions ... <snip>"
(From [[Pentecostal Mission]])
This seems to be someone writing an article about their religious group from the perspective of that religious group. That's suboptimal, but it's not a huge problem by itself: we can rewrite it for NPOV. More problematic is people fighting to add or maintain POV in an article. Has that happened here?
-- Matt
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