Ray Saintonge saintonge@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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