|From: Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com |Reply-To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 21:18:10 -0800 | |Bridget [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
<snip isaac asimov, retain rommel>
| |> The article remains POV as it contains a POV statement which has |>been given no source. In the Erwin Rommel article I could say, "Erwin |>Rommel is considered to be the greatest general ever". | |Notice how you've dropped a *key* phrase, i.e. "by many". | |It is perfectly fine to say "Erwin Rommel is considered by many to be |the greatest general of modern times." It's much better to say who |the 'many' are, and to give a cite that involves some kind of actual |counting. But neither are _required_ if it is in fact widely so |thought. | |--Jimbo |_______________________________________________
The judgment of one noted military historian on Rommel:
"We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great General."
This from Winston Churchill. He was speaking in Parliament, the wartime prime minister, facing a censure vote for not having defeated Rommel, and yet managed to express a high opinion of Rommel. I think it is fairly safe for Wikipedia to do the same 60 years later.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88