On 1/5/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)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.