[WikiEN-l] Re: NPOV facts (was: I like Plautus)

[Ray Saintonge]

Timwi wrote:

> Imagine death penalty was universally accepted as an adequate 
> punishment. Do you think our articles would mention any concerns of 
> the moral/ethical implications of it? Certainly not. Not because these 
> concerns are invalid or anything, but because no POV represents them. 
> Thus, favouring death penalty *is* *the* NPOV of that hypothetical world.

That's an interesting approach that I think I support.  As long as the 
supporters of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were the only ones 
writing on the subject their views would be NPOV.  (In reality that NPOV 
would not last.)  Similarly, as long as there is only one chocolate cake 
recipe it represents NPOV, but this NPOV would have a better 
survivability than the one on PEZ.

Where more than one view is made evident it is unlikely that ANY one 
such view will be NPOV.  NPOV becomes an exercise in tolerance of the 
other idiot's POV. ;-)

Ec