[[User:Pjacobi]] is on a hunt in the English and German Wikipedia to put articles of VfD that he thinks are POV forks i.e. all Criticism articles including [[Criticism of Wikipedia]] that has survived VfD a couple of weeks ago. Other possible unjustified victims of the hunt are [[Criticism of Prem Rawat]]. I agree that POV forks should be avoided but a Criticism article does not have to be a POV fork.
[[User:Pjacobi]] overlooks the fact that there are legitimate criticism articles. Legitimate criticism articles fulfill the following conditions. 1. The main article is too big to contain all points the criticism. The main article should contains a summary of the criticisms 2. The criticisms follow normal standards of NPOV, verifiability, documentation elsewhere etc. 3. The points of criticism are followed by rebuttals that follow the normal standards 4. The subject is relative to its size so controversial that it warrants a separate criticism article. For example, the controversial status of Scientology justifies an article [[Scientology_controversy]]
[[User:Pjacobi]] and I [[user:Andries]] agree that we need guidelines about what Pjacobi calls "POV forks".
Andries K.D.
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 03:35:35 +0100, Andries Krugers Dagneaux andrieskd@chello.nl wrote:
[[User:Pjacobi]] and I [[user:Andries]] agree that we need guidelines about what Pjacobi calls "POV forks".
I think the important difference is that a "controversy" article is a vertical split, but a POV fork attempts to compete with an existing article horizontally. Controversy articles move lengthy details out of the main article, but POV forks present alternate versions of the subject. In my mind, that's the main difference. Duplication of coverage is the reason we shouldn't allow POV fork articles.
Rhobite