On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:41:04AM -0800, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Key words "in a manner fair to it". In my world view what is most "fair" in terms of NPOV is to express majority opinions as majority opinions and minority ones as minority. This also affects the amount of text we give to any particular opinion in an article. So majority opinions get majority time. Therefore if something is known by a particular name by the great majority of English speakers we should reflect this fact in our choice of what to name the article. So yes, NPOV does most certainly apply.
We should be more concerned with presenting facts than with opinions. People turn to an Encyclopedia to find out the truth about things. Just regurgitating "what everyone knows" is counter-productive when actual facts exist.
Believe it or not, NPOV requires the facts to be presented wherever possible, instead of opinions.
For the record, the above two paragraphs have nothing to do with what you talked about in the rest of your message.
Jonathan