The English Wikibooks recently started a Voter's Guide ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Voter%27s_Guide ). While I think the project is a good idea, I wonder if there are legal issues for the Foundation that publishing such a guide might complicate.
Looking for a little guidance,
John Pozniak (Gentgeen)
Anything NPOV is perfectly fine. As a 501(c)(3) we can't engage in certain types of political advocacy as an organization.
http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=120703,00.html
But per our NPOV policy, we don't engage in political advocacy anyway.
John Pozniak wrote:
The English Wikibooks recently started a Voter's Guide ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Voter%27s_Guide ). While I think the project is a good idea, I wonder if there are legal issues for the Foundation that publishing such a guide might complicate.
Looking for a little guidance,
John Pozniak (Gentgeen) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Eric Pöhlsen wrote:
But per our NPOV policy, we don't engage in political advocacy anyway.
NPOV is for the encyclopedia not for the books or am I mistaken?
NPOV is a principle that applies across all projects. The way that it applies varies with the circumstances. If the idea behind these voters' guides is to present the views of the parties and their candidates then each individual guide should fairly and sympathetically represent the view of the particular candidate without the need to engage in long debates in defence of that position. NPOV is represented by making sure that all candidates and their supporters have an equal opportunity to present their views in their respective guides.
Ec
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