On 8/8/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)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