--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Don't blame me! The problem is that what is
defined on
[[Wikipedia:NPOV]] != "neutral point of view".
That is, the concept
denoted by the four letters NPOV, as defined
within the Wikipedia
context, is not congruous to the concept denoted
by the phrase "neutral
point of view".
This is a basic problem.
Fair enough, I suppose. It's jargon, and jargon is dangerous in that way.
I'd recommend changing it, but it's so well entrenched in our culture now, that...
--Jimbo
Before I joined Wikipedia, I'd always thought 'point of view' meant who was the narrator in a story, like first person, third person omnicient, etc. Maybe we should invent a word to replace the clumsy acronym "NPOV", since it is already so distanced from its original meaning. Or we could just say "unbiased", but, then again, FOX claims to be unbiased... --LittleDan
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