On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:16 AM, David Levy lifeisunfair@gmail.com wrote:
Tobias Oelgarte described one key problem. Another lies in the labeling of some things and not others. Unless we were to create and apply a label for literally everything that someone finds objectionable, we'd be taking the non-neutral position that only certain objections (the ones for which filters exist) are reasonable.
NPOV involves determining whether viewpoints are widely held, are held by substantial or significant minorities, or are held by an extremely small or vastly limited minority and therefore not suitable to be covered in articles. This is an editorial decision-making process that all editors perform all the time. Determining which filters to work on is entirely analogous to this process, which is inherently neutral.