[WikiEN-l] NOR contradicts NPOV

[WJhonson at aol.com]

<<In a message dated 1/6/2009 5:25:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:

Do you  never get the urge, when discovering something interesting, to
see if it in  Wikipedia? Sure, it should be put in the right place with
the right sources  and the right weight. But that urge is still there
to educate and  inform.>>
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I don't quite see how this relates to what I stated.
We are not in the position to decide what's important.  We are in the  
position to create articles based on what's important.
We determine what's important based on what the community who represents  
those creators, researchers, editors, writers, professionals... believe is  
important.
 
How do you do that?  How do you determine, what some other group of  people 
think is important?
My thesis is that you do that by checking textbooks and doing google  
searches to see what's being talked *up* and ... what's not.
 
This of course, only applies to *modern* items.  Historical items will  not 
necessarily be amenable to the google searches, but they should be to the  
textbook searches.
 
Will Johnson
 
 
 
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