2006/4/14, Ian Tresman it@knowledge.co.uk:

I've now found clarification of this issue, from Jimbo Wales in a post here: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-September/006653.html This seems to provide verification of the issue.

I replaced the existing paraphrased text with Jimbo's verifiable quotes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view&am...

But editors are telling me that:

1. Policy pages aren't subject to the verifiability policy

2. Jimbo is not the supreme lawgiver. The only thing he has made

"law" is that having a policy of writing from a neutral point of view is a must. Everything else he has said are contributions from a respected member of the community, as the policies are community-decided.

Comments?

Jimbo is not saying there that all views should be presented, nor that there is a minimum size for those views that are presented. What he's saying is that we might make difference in size and importance between presented views and that if a view is a minority view, we ought to state that. This seems not to have bearing on issue at hand, except in the sense that he says we should NOT give a too large piece on minority views. Or at least, that NPOV is in no way obliging or even inviting us to do so.

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