On 5/15/07, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
No. NPOV does not take into account on any level whatsoever the issue of addressing hypothetical claims. It states, and I quote, that we must represent "all significant views (that have been published by reliable sources."
"without bias" by representing it as the only view you are representing it with bias. And where no other views have been published by reliable sources it is impossible to get around this without breaching NOR. Thus it is impossible to write a NPOV article where there are not a least a handful of citeable sources.
Currently [[Invincible Snowfields]] is trying to get around this by very careful wording that contains no opinion whatsoever (and gets close to succeeding) but since NPOV demands that you do include opinion this is not a valid get out either.
In short requiring articles be NPOV is a notability standard and for certain things quite a tough one.