On Jun 4, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/4/06, James D. Forrester james@jdforrester.org wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
Formal definition of "POV pushing" required. Anyone?
Yes, oh yes, absolutely, yes please. Let's wikilawyer ourselves to death, defining anything and everything to maximal precision and minimal accuracy. I can't wait.
Currently there seems to be confusion over the term. Maybe you could just answer these questions instead:
- does POV pushing have to be intentional?
No, but discussion of the editing must prove fruitless.
- does POV pushing have to be in bad faith?
No, but again discussion of the editing must prove fruitless.
- is someone who is genuinely correcting bias in an article "POV
pushing"?
No.
- is someone who *thinks* they're doing the above (but is actually
introducing bias) "POV pushing"?
Yes; again, the test is whether discussing the situation with them corrects the problem.
- is systematically adding examples of your own country, culture,
religion, language etc to a wide range of articles "POV pushing"?
Could be. If your examples result in introduction of inappropriate or insignificant viewpoints into a number of articles it would be. To take a well known example, it is inappropriate to add the views of Lyndon LaRouche to every political or economics article. Another recent example was an editor who went through all the biographies adding the information that every Jewish person about whom there was a biography was Jewish. Sometimes nationality or race is irrelevant.
Fred
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