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.