[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/31/2008 7:53:06 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
crustybush at gmail.com writes:

If I'm  right, Phil is complaining that NOR contradicts NPOV because someone
won't  necessarily be able to defend themselves in their article because what
they  say (eg through a letter) will be OR, and therefore the article won't
have  NPOV?>>


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No.  What Phil is stating is that NOR contradicts NPOV because of a  line 
which states that primary sources may only be used for  descriptive clauses (not 
interpretive ones).  Therefore, since what an  author writes is a primary 
source, they cannot defend themselves from perceived  false interpretations of 
others, which are secondary sources.
 
My counters included an attack on whether an op-ed is really  secondary.  And 
also an attack on whether a self-review is really  primary.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
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