[WikiEN-l] Clutch is on a POV tirade

[The Cunctator]

On 12/9/02 7:05 AM, "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:

> Erik Moeller wrote:
>> "Told ya so" (during the User:Lir page episode). Clutch (Jonathan Walther)
>> enjoys trolling Wikipedia from time to time. He's quite persistent, too.  If
>> he keeps it up, we'll have to ban him.
> 
> *sigh* I tend to agree with you.
> 
> Disputes over NPOV are not unusual and not, generally, problematic.
> But I do hate to see someone on a rant who clearly has no intention of
> accomodating other people's views in the least.
> 
> Clutch, notice that "It's true" is not usually a defense against a
> charge of POV.  I could write, on a page about North Korea, that it is
> led by muderous tyrants with no right to exist, much less right to
> nuclear weapons.  Well, that's true.  But it is still not NPOV.
> 
The "murderous tyrants" bit is NPOV, but it would require some backing up.