The Cunctator wrote:
On 5/17/03 10:48 AM, "koyaanis qatsi" obchodnakorze@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