[WikiEN-l] Worrying trends

[Snowspinner]

On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
>

> This comes into endless conflict with our stated mission of  
> creating an
> unbiased yet comprehensive free encyclopedia. Nonetheless, we've  
> done an
> outstanding job. We've got the world's attention, but we need to  
> figure
> out how to take it to the next level.


I am increasingly coming to believe that NPOV does not lead to an  
unbiased encyclopedia, but rather an encyclopedia that is biased  
against idiocy. There's a wide number of totalizing POVs - Church of  
Scientology springs to mind - that can't function in a NPOV  
environment because they deny the existence of multiple points of  
view. These POVs are excluded. We are biased against them.

As well we should be, but still. It's a key distinction, and one that  
I think plays into other parts of this debate.

-Snowspinner