On 09/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
A request for all those advocating a new policy of opt-out for some biographies:
I'm seeing no-one addressing the issue of Neutral Point Of View, previously a core policy of Wikipedia. Could those of you advocating a new policy please detail your understanding of how we can be sure this won't damage neutrality?
NPOV is a matter of article content, surely? By not having an article we simply don't cover that topic, not implicitly cover that topic non-neutrally...
If reference to the person is necessary for a neutral coverage in another article, we make that reference; it doesn't mean we need to link out to a seperate biographical article.