[WikiEN-l] Neutral point of view

[Marc Riddell]

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> In a message dated 4/13/2008 10:00:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> joeyyuan at cox.net writes:
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> 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.>>

This is essentially an issue of semantics.
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on 4/13/08 7:47 PM, WJhonson at aol.com at WJhonson at aol.com wrote:

> If you hate bigots are you a bigot?  Or are you a meta-bigot?
> "You're a hater, because you hate haters!"
> 
> Essentially the same logic applies to your above statement.
> "Neutral point-of-view" is not a point-of-view, it is the absence of any
> point-of-view.
> 
I agree with you, Will. Actually, NPOV should mean "No Point Of View".

Marc Riddell