On 8/7/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/7/06, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
On Aug 7, 2006, at 6:30 AM, David Gerard wrote:
I'm sorely lacking in snappy quotes, though. I ask your assistance: Explain NPOV in a sentence.
Amazing that an arbitrator would not be familiar with this:
[[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] contemplates inclusion of all significant points of view regarding a subject.
I'd add one more sentence on there, something like, "Wikipedia does not attempt to describe truth itself, but rather to represent the truth as regarded by relevant experts." Except snappier. I think that's a key part of the epistemological position Wikipedia takes -- we shove off the hard issue of "truth" onto others. (In this respect the line between NPOV and NOR is pretty blurry.)
Blurring the NPOV/NOR line in a brief description like this may be a good thing, because if may lead to an opportunity to give a one to two sentence followup about NOR.