[WikiEN-l] Back to the source no NPOV

[The Cunctator]

On 5/23/03 6:54 AM, "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> wrote:

> The Cunctator wrote:
>> Don't blame me! The problem is that what is defined on
>> [[Wikipedia:NPOV]] != "neutral point of view". That is, the concept
>> denoted by the four letters NPOV, as defined within the Wikipedia
>> context, is not congruous to the concept denoted by the phrase "neutral
>> point of view".
>> 
>> This is a basic problem.
> 
> Fair enough, I suppose.  It's jargon, and jargon is dangerous in that
> way.
> 
> I'd recommend changing it, but it's so well entrenched in our culture
> now, that...
> 
The important thing to do before (talking about) changing it is to figure
out what it actually means, which we can do by looking at how "NPOV" is used
in context.