[WikiEN-l] NPOV majorities/minorities

Stephen Bain stephen.bain at gmail.com
Sat May 6 02:45:11 UTC 2006


On 5/5/06, Cheney Shill <halliburton_shill at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I agree about the 10 fringe vs. 2 authorities.  But that has nothing to do with this scenario, in which the sources are of equal authority.  In fact, the very fact that you turned a non-ambiguous scenario into an ambiguous scenario is evidence that the process itself is far too ambiguous.  It's not just you; I have not gotten 1 straight answer on this.  Are we not supposed to be judging and reporting on the facts as they are, not as we think they should be?~~~~Pro-Lick

NPOV is not a process, that's the problem with your line of thinking.
If it were, someone could write a nice script, and people would input
a list of sources and encyclopaedia articles would come out the other
end.

NPOV is an editorial skill, one of the more difficult editorial skills
to learn. Trying to reduce it to a formula will not work, because
there is no perfect scenario like you outline. Sources will always
need evaluating, that is the role of editors.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com



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