G'day Gracenotes,
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general, and of the policy (could you believe that people disagreed with NPOV when Wikipedia started? with the GFDL now? with notability?).
What of it? NPOV is not the Holy Grail, just a reasonable compromise (more on that later). The GFDL is a terrible licence, adopted only because it was the best we could think of at the time. Notability is still being debated --- there's an ongoing argument about it on this list on this day.
We're still quite fond of NPOV, for good reason. We're not so fond of the GFDL, but we're stuck with it. We were never fond of notability (I was and to a degree am, but I am in the minority).
Now, on NPOV. When we purport to be a source of facts, we need to be careful of our own biases. There are different approaches. The first, and most popular, is what we might call the FOX News Approach: lie about them. Another approach is to clearly explain our biases, and say, "We are telling the truth, but we are biased." Call this the Guardian Approach. Finally we have NPOV: "We are doing our damnedest to be as unbiased as possible."
The FOX News Approach is clearly inappropriate. The second approach works quite well. It is obvious to me that the best point of view to write from is Mark Gallagher's Point Of View (MGAPOV), and I see nothing wrong with writing like that. If, however, I intend to collaborate with Gracenotes, I may run into trouble, because he clearly supports MGRPOV instead. He's wrong, but I will find it difficult to convince him. Gracenotes doesn't want all of Wikipedia written in MGAPOV (because he's biased), and I certainly don't want MGRPOV to dominate (because MGAPOV is superior). Whatever shall we do?
Maybe we could have a compromise. Maybe we could decide to write from ... a neutral point of view (NPOV), and have articles that do not conform to MGRPOV or MGAPOV, but which we can both agree is a fair summary? Maybe ... just maybe ... that could work.