[WikiEN-l] Challenge: explain NPOV in a sentence.

[George Herbert]

On 8/7/06, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/7/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Aug 7, 2006, at 6:30 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sorely lacking in snappy quotes, though. I ask your assistance:
> > > Explain NPOV in a sentence.
> >
> > Amazing that an arbitrator would not be familiar with this:
> >
> > [[Wikipedia:Neutral point of view]] contemplates inclusion of all
> > significant points of view regarding a subject.
>
> I'd add one more sentence on there, something like, "Wikipedia does
> not attempt to describe truth itself, but rather to represent the
> truth as regarded by relevant experts." Except snappier. I think
> that's a key part of the epistemological position Wikipedia takes --
> we shove off the hard issue of "truth" onto others. (In this respect
> the line between NPOV and NOR is pretty blurry.)



Blurring the NPOV/NOR line in a brief description like this may be a good
thing, because if may lead to an opportunity to give a one to two sentence
followup about NOR.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com