Geoff Burling wrote:
I'm throwing out an argument against the concept that an encyclopedia should be "informative, not instructional", based on one datum: for many years (perhaps even now, but at least into the 1960's) it was not uncommon for people to teach themselves how to play chess from the article in the encyclopedia.
POV: A chessboard has 64 squares.
NPOV: Experts claim that a chessboard has 64 squares.
I wonder where this leads us. :-)
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