Rotem Dan wrote:
Ok then, now that jimmy agrees with this points (and supposedly everyone), I will present what refinements I'm adding to the policies and guidelines:
? Pretty much everything you've said is perfectly consistent with existing policies and guidelines, as far as I know. So I don't think you're updating those.
- Creating a wiki that tries to form a consensus regarding the
matter itself (by addressing the matter directly, not the different views and historical timeline) is an impossible task.
Not really explained well in the rules, (AFAIK), I will add this.
Be careful. Rather than phrase this as a rule, it should be phrased as a suggested route to achieve NPOV. Achieving NPOV on matters-in-themselves is often more difficult than achieving NPOV on what-has-been-said-about-matters-in-themselves.
But this is not a new technique, we have long called it "going meta".
--Jimbo