In a message dated 4/13/2008 6:03:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, ian.woollard@gmail.com writes:

No, that's a common misconception; and if it was true, that would rapidly create an empty wikipedia, *everything* written, *ever*, is somebody's point of view. For example, Newton's Principia was Newton's point of view, but we don't remove that from the wiki ;-)

---------------- NPOV does not mandate that our sources themselves are neutral. What it states is that *we* write from a neutral frame, not that they must have.

We, collectively, are not *an* author, nor a source. We are Q, the collective mind, yet individuals. Our collaborative effort itself must express a neutral point-of-view, although each of us individually, and our sources, individually may have a non-neutral point-of-view.

Neutrality arises as a function of the collective effort. Or at least that is the goal at which we aim.

Will Johnson

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