[WikiEN-l] popular POV not NPOV? (was:New York Times article)

[jkelly at fas.harvard.edu]

  Hi,

  With the caveat that I haven't looked carefully at either the AN discussion,
the RFC, nor the article in question...

Quoting Conrad Dunkerson <conrad.dunkerson at worldnet.att.net>:

> To me that looks like the >admin< was violating NPOV by trying to write
> the article from the 'most popular point of view' rather than the NEUTRAL
> point of view...

...it would be easy to (mis?)read the above as a statement that we are
attempting to find some sort of absolute neutrality between points of view.  It
isn't a violation of [[WP:NPOV]] to write a synthesis of mainstream thinking and
identify fringe views as fringe views.  Our actual policy goes into some detail
about this, and takes a much less naive view of neutrality than is often
attributed to it.

   Jkelly