On 8/8/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It might be worth someone taking the results of this thread and doing a refactor on WP:NPOV (hitting the talk page, of course, because you can bet there's a lot of watchers). If it's like any other Wikipedia policy/guideline mix page it'll have been instruction-crept out the wazoo.
Yes, ironically NPOV is actually a disaster for Wikipedia policy pages. It's exactly what we *don't* want: a description of disagreement over policy, but no firm statement that we all agree to accept.
WP:NOT has some classic examples, especially in how it rules "glossaries" in but "lists of definitions" out. This apparently satisfies everyone - if you write a list of definitions, WP:NOT lets you keep it. If you hate someone's glossary, WP:NOT justifies your deleting it. (and yes, I deliberately swapped those over).
Steve