"Captured"(???) and "Correct"(!!!)? Those aren't good alternatives to "Neutral".
The closest synonyms I can find to "neutral" which really get the same meaning are "evenhanded", "impartial", and "disinterested". Even these are a bit too close to "objective" which is not the same thing as "neutral" at all (you can be objective without being neutral).
Neutral is a great word. Instead of worrying about people misunderstanding the acronym, which should take more time to explain it to them, and try to avoid using acronyms alltogether if possible (they are in-community practices which are opaque and potentially misleading to those who are not used to them -- WP:FU is a great example!).
FF
On 6/24/06, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, POV is nearly always good NPOV unless it's OR.
We should really change the name NPOV. It's too confusing. The policy is spot on but nobody knows what the acronym NPOV means.
I would prefer, say, CPOV. Captured POV or Correct POV. NPOV suggests *Not* POV; whereas POV is absolutely fine.
*Seriously*.
Page move anyone?
On 25/06/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
Hi,
With the caveat that I haven't looked carefully at either the AN discussion, the RFC, nor the article in question...
Quoting Conrad Dunkerson conrad.dunkerson@worldnet.att.net:
To me that looks like the >admin< was violating NPOV by trying to write the article from the 'most popular point of view' rather than the NEUTRAL point of view...
...it would be easy to (mis?)read the above as a statement that we are attempting to find some sort of absolute neutrality between points of view. It isn't a violation of [[WP:NPOV]] to write a synthesis of mainstream thinking and identify fringe views as fringe views. Our actual policy goes into some detail about this, and takes a much less naive view of neutrality than is often attributed to it.
Jkelly
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