On 12/6/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Steve Block wrote:
I agree with you, but community consensus doesn't. I recently tried to get the criminal categories renamed to include the words convicted but was told that was unworkable since Butch Cassiday was never convicted, or something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2005_Nove...
Well, I guess community consensus trumps NPOV ... except of course it doesn't. That would get a "don't be dense" category deletion.
I'm not quite sure why this would be a NPOV issue, unless we're going to start deleting any category for which the membership may be contentious.
To continue with the example cited above, is describing Butch Cassidy as a "prolific bank and train robber" in the article text permitted while placing him in the bank robbers category is not? That seems to be a rather unintuitive approach to categorization. Or are the statement and the category both NPOV violations since he was never convicted of robbing banks (even though no sources dispute the assertion)?
Kirill Lokshin