[WikiEN-l] CSD T1

[Nick Boalch]

Nick Boalch wrote:

>>> Accordingly on other articles, different points of view need 
>>> to be included based on their prominence and level of support 
>>> in the real world, not just on which happens to be most 
>>> popular among the Wikipedia editing community.
>>
>> That's the problem. In theory, theory and practice are identical. In
>> practice, they aren't.
>>
>> WP articles are not written by the general community, they are written by
>> editors, usually a handful of core contributors. NPOV works out to what
>> these editors agree it is, simply because nobody else has any significant
>> input.
> 
> Indeed. The point is that those editors

...should agree on what is NPOV based on the mixture of points-of-view
*in the real world*, not just on their own opinions.

(Oops.)

Cheers,

N.

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