On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote: ...
I, for one, share your perception that NPOV is a problem on some (perhaps most) Wikipedias,
asaf, could you please elaborate a little bit what you mean by this? do you not share the experience that the editors were able to come up with reasonable and well thought out rules they follow, since wikipedia exists? and many of the rules were discussed. and most of them discussed again? isn't this one of the cores which made wikipedia so successful?
rupert.
For the most part; however, and I speak only of the English Wikipedia, there are topics where pov prevails due to the skill and power of its advocates. I suspect much worse things elsewhere.
By the way, I regularly, and deliberately, engage in point of view writing elsewhere; I know it when I see it.
Ask yourself, where is the article [[processed food]]? If you want an good education in public relations techniques, try to write one...
Fred