On May 14, 2007, at 7:38 PM, geni wrote:
On 5/15/07, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
What? No. We do not have to include hypothetical objections to statements. There is, in fact, a policy about this, called "No original research." In terms of NPOV, unless someone has actually pointed out the possibility of a land expedition to the Invincible Snowfields, it's original research to dispute the claim.
Yup. Which is why it is imposible to write a NPOV article and thus the article should be deleted.
No. NPOV does not take into account on any level whatsoever the issue of addressing hypothetical claims. It states, and I quote, that we must represent "all significant views (that have been published by reliable sources."
Unless the viewpoint that Invincible Snowfields might be accessible by land has actually been published somewhere, it is completely irrelevant to the project of writing an encyclopedia.
-Phil