--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)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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