I don't believe so. I came upon it in RC while working on MWT and
taking a break by fighting some vandalism (relaxing AND productive,
although it proves that i need to get a life). I contacted the user
about it:
"Hi there, I noticed you've been adding to [[Pentecostal Mission]].
Thankyou for your contributions to Wikipedia; they are much valued.
However, please remember that Wikipedia [[WP:NPOV|follows a neutral
point of view]]. As a result, we cannot assert the existence of any
particular divine being, referring to god with a capital G and as
'Himself' violates this policy. Please do not be discouraged from
editing; just in future be aware that we may have to modify your
contributions slightly so as not to imply the superiority of any
particular religion over another. [...] "
I don't think there's been any significant attempt at removing the
POV, nor has there been any obvious attempt to put it back in after it
has been removed.
{{fact}} seems a little... mean. I know that sounds childish, but
[[WP:BITE]], its true. One of the editors in the last 50 changes
actually has a userpage (besides the CVU members RVing), while another
has a talk page only because a newbie unfamiliar with policy (unsigned
comment) has asked him if he is really who his username implies him to
be. The rest are IP editors.
I don't really care about this article in particular, I mean on a
whole. Is there some sort of POV taskforce / wikiproject? I know
there's some sort of taskforce for 'countering systematic bias' but
I'm not so sure how it works or how effective it is.
On 9/12/06, Matt R <matt_crypto(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"The ministers or the saints of God are
called by God Himself through
dreams and visions ... <snip>"
(From [[Pentecostal Mission]])
This seems to be someone writing an article about their religious group from the
perspective of that religious group. That's suboptimal, but it's not a huge
problem by itself: we can rewrite it for NPOV. More problematic is people fighting to add
or maintain POV in an article. Has that happened here?
-- Matt
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