Jonathan Walther wrote:

One way to state the NPOV policy is that it encourages people to use a Hegelian dialectic. I wish the NPOV policy could just say "Use the Hegelian dialectic". That whole thing about "neutrality" is delicate and confusing otherwise.

It really isn't that confusing if you actually read what we wrote about it. It's a heck of a lot less confusing than goddamned Hegel. :-)

If you read the "write for the enemy" section you will see that the current document actually specifically repudiates using anything like a "Hegelian dialectic." (I take it Jonathan means that we ought first to make the text biased in one direction, then biased in the opposite direction, and then someone like me or Ed should come in and find common ground.) That's not really how we've worked, and I think it's a grand thing we haven't, too--because we don't have enough "synthesizers" and far, far too many partisans who would be (and, when they can get away with it, *are*) only too happy to use Wikipedia to advance their personal causes, at least until the next step in the dialectic came along. ;-)

Larry