Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Cheney Shill wrote:
To me, the most important aspect of NPOV has nothing to do with being "fair". It has to do with removing your own personal opinion and accepting that of the experts on the topic, thus satisfying verifiability, even if it goes against what you prefer or previously believed.
Different POVs depend on a different selection of expert POVs. Being fair to those who do not represent your expert's POV means that you don't try to massage your opponent's views so that they seem worse than they really are.
I think we agree here. I compressed experts of all editors (aka, reputable & reliable sources, not simply notable) into a single statement. Given that you are working on an article with a group, the experts are not simply going to be the ones initially preferred and believed by you or the other editors.
They do, however, all have to meet the policy requirements for sources, which are very different from those requirements to simply have an article about a person. A person doesn't need to be an expert on anything to have an article about them. Another crucial aspect that Jimbo pointed out recently is that being verifiable (in the general non-policy sense) and notable is not equivalent to being reputable and reliable, or everything printed in tabloids, PR releases, religious texts, and advertisements would become equivalent to Nature or 60 Minutes.
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