Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
I subscribe to the notion that _every_ first draft
article follows NPOV.
That has at least 7 problems:
1. It's not policy or guideline to assume first drafts
meet policy.
2. By assuming first drafts meet policy, one gives it an
advantage over all future edits, regardless of how much
better those edits may be.
3. It violates applying AGF equally among all writers'
edits.
4. It violates the basic premise of Wikipedia that the
more contributors to an article, the better. Otherwise,
why put it on the Internet and leave it open to anyone to
edit?
5. Psychologically, in terms of faulty decision making,
it's an application of the primacy effect, which I presume,
given the recent discussion of mental disorders here,
requires no further explanation.
6. It applies a personal standard that interferes with the
policy expressed in the the subject.
7. It promotes the creation of new articles on the same
subject instead of adjusting the existing article, thus
creating redundant articles.
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