On 05/01/06, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/5/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
This is an excellent idea. Rather than try to cram all points of view into one article, how about loosening up and allowing several articles with differing points of view or level of detail?
This idea has been discussed before, but is worth another look.
Fred, you can keep SPOV on Wikinfo; Wikipedia is and always will be NPOV. The "multiple levels of detail" is already covered by subarticles (eg. Geography of Australia).
Having multiple articles on one topic from different points of view is certainly a bad idea, but having multiple articles (if people can bother to maintain them) need not be. The objective of an article is to explain a given topic, and a single monolithic explanation might not suit everybody, for instance if you're familiar with the field you'd like a more technical explanation and if you aren't something that eases you into the topic is more appropriate.
To give some examples, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-complete