I probably should have used the word "implement" rather than "enforce."
I agree that in some sense "the death penalty" qualifies as enforcement, but it doesn't actually make any particular article adhere to NPOV. It's the community, not the Foundation, that is trusted with ensuring that individual articles adhere to the NPOV standard.
--Mike
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:36 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/2 Mike Godwin mnemonic@gmail.com:
I'm unclear as to how it seems inconsistent to you. Can you explain what
you
think is unreconciled? I assume you recognize that NPOV has been adopted
by
the Wikipedia community and is enforced by it (and not by the
Foundation).
That statement is actually false - Wikipedias have been shut down by the Foundation for being grossly negligent of NPOV (Siberian, Moldovan).
- d.