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

[David Gerard]

On 08/08/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/8/06, mboverload <mboverload at gmail.com> wrote:

> > "Don't be a POV dick"
> > I mean, it's not that hard.  Don't be an asshole.

> No, it's much more than that. There are plenty of ways of violating
> NPOV in good faith. You may have simply left out a viewpoint you
> didn't know about, or let your own world experience (such as living in
> a certain country) distort the perceptions present in the article.


Yep. It's easy to start on, but you do get less worse with practice.

And the Cunctator is, of course, right: it's an ideal, a compass to
follow - you never get there.


- d.