[WikiEN-l] Blue sky thinking around "neutral point of view"

[Haukur Þorgeirsson]

I, too, am sick and tired of the acronym "POV" thrown around as an insult.
I doubt we can gather enough steam to deprecate the [[WP:NPOV]] shortcut
but my suggestion for an alternative would be [[WP:NEUTRAL]].

Regards,
Haukur


> Just some blue sky thinking:
>
>   Our neutral point of view policy has aroused a fair bit of discussion at
> [[WP:NPOV]]
>   recently, and this has got me thinking:
>
>   We've all seen arguments where people keep arguing that this is "POV" or
> someone
>   is being "POV" where in normal English we'd just call something an
> "opinion" and
>   note that someone has an opinion on something. Indeed, the made-up term
> POV
>   is bandied around usually to mean something along the lines of - you are
> wrong,
>   I am right, and because it is a NPOV issue, the point is non-negotiable,
> which isn't
>   a very good place to start from if the issue is to be resolved. Plus far
> too many
>   people read NPOV as equating to "no point of view" as opposed to the
> real requirement, which is to write from a neutral viewpoint.
>
>   My blue sky thinking (which I don't claim to be a panacea, just an
> interesting thought) is why don't we rename the policy page
> [[Wikipedia:Neutral viewpoint]] and make
>   the shortcut link to it [[WP:NEUVIEW]] (or [[WP:NEUTVIEW]]). It goes
> without
>   saying that the underlying concept behind the policy would remain
> completely
>   unchanged - just the name of the page would change - plus it would
> enhance
>   people's perceptions that it is about requiring a neutral viewpoint,
> rather than no
>   viewpoint, or neutrality more generally: it would help define the policy
> in positive terms
>   and (and perhaps I'm going too far here:) ) may help stop content
> disputes escalating
>   in scale and viciousness.
>
>   Kind regards
>
>   Jon
>   (jguk)
>
>
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