[WikiEN-l] Neutral point of view
Ian Woollard
ian.woollard at gmail.com
Sun Apr 13 17:31:26 UTC 2008
On 13/04/2008, Jonas Rand <joeyyuan at cox.net> wrote:
> Wikipedia has a big flaw: neutrality. The core principle of writing from a
> "neutral" point of view is contradictory: it has a point of view in itself,
> and the point of view is supposedly against points of view. In the wacky
> world of hypocrites and liars, there is such a thing as a point of view
> without viewpoints. In reality, however, facts are limited and mostly things
> are opinions, philosophies, viewpoints, or lies.
But that's not the goal of neutrality! The goal of neutrality is to
*collect* all signficant points of views and represent them in the
wikipedia!
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-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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