I don't know, I personally think it's POV in most cases to quote something as a representation of an entire work - you might take it out of context, or it might not be the "good part" (or you may think it is but others disagree), some might say it misrepresents the work, etc.
Mark
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 20:59:14 -0800, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Sj wrote:
Choosing one recipe to represent the collection of possibilities for a dish is no more POV than choosing one quote to represent a poem, book, film, or famous wit.
Hear hear. I'm just waiting for someone to complain that articles shouldn't mention specific examples of a general concept, because picking an example makes it seem more important than the unmentioned examples, and we can't have pictures, because it's "POV" to only depict one object and not any of the others...
NPOV is a technique to cope with intractable disputes, not some kind of weirdo Wikipedian-only quasi-religion. :-)
Stan
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