[WikiEN-l] Re: photography and POV
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sat May 17 17:49:39 UTC 2003
The Cunctator wrote:
>On 5/17/03 10:48 AM, "koyaanis qatsi" <obchodnakorze at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Maybe we could set up a page on meta discussing photos
>>and POV. the topic has come up at least twice on
>>wikipedia in the last year, though I'm not sure where.
>>I thought one of them was [[talk:Rachel Corrie]] but
>>it wasn't. then I thought maybe [[talk:Saddam
>>Hussein]] and yes, somewhat, but that's also not the
>>discussion I was thinking of.
>>
>
>As I've said, a big part of the broken usage of POV and NPOV on Wikipedia to
>mean something other than what God intended.
>
>(Namely, that the neutral point of view is a Platonic ideal.)
>
As they used to say back on The Farm: "All Points of View are neutral
but some are more neutral than others." ;-)
Ec
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