On
7/15/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/14/07, David Goodman
<dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, we don't. If we were fairly to represent the majority of the
world's published sources on [[Gay]], we'd have to include in the lead
that people think homosexuality is a sin, and at [[Woman]], that most
people around the world think women are inferior to men.
We pay lip service to NPOV, and to BIAS, while quietly applying both
with common sense, which is how all the policies and processed need to
be applied.
We publish them fairly, which does not mean proportional to the
numbers who believe in them. It means fully enough to explain them
objectively in their own terms, and this goes for literally
everything--and I would say without any exception.
You are confusing voting for legislation with making an encyclopedia.
The number of people who hold a view is irrelevant.
Well, we're meant to represent views in rough proportion to how
they're held by reliable, published sources. We're also meant to take
a global perspective. If we were to do both of those things, we would
have to add thoroughly objectionable material to lots of articles,
including the examples I gave above. So we don't do it.
Look at [[Gay]] and [[Woman]], and you'll see that we don't.