[WikiEN-l] Neutral point of view

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/13/2008 6:03:09 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
ian.woollard at gmail.com writes:

No,  that's a common misconception; and if it was true, that would
rapidly  create an empty wikipedia, *everything* written, *ever*, is
somebody's  point of view. For example, Newton's Principia was Newton's
point of view,  but we don't remove that from the wiki ;-)


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NPOV does not mandate that our sources themselves are neutral.
What it states is that *we* write from a neutral frame, not that they must  
have.
 
We, collectively, are not *an* author, nor a source.  We are Q, the  
collective mind, yet individuals.
Our collaborative effort itself must express a neutral point-of-view,  
although each of us individually, and our sources, individually may have a  
non-neutral point-of-view.
 
Neutrality arises as a function of the collective effort.  Or at least  that 
is the goal at which we aim.
 
Will Johnson



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