[WikiEN-l] Neutrality enforcement: a proposal

[Durova]

Yes, primary and secondary education in history is almost always pro-that
country's POV.  So editors arrive having learned certain things in
respectable settings and sincerely believe what they picked up in the
classroom.  A relatively small number of people study beyond that, many of
whom read with the unrecognized intention of confirming the bias they've
already acquired.

So of all our site's long term disputes, nationalism conflicts would be
among the hardest to solve with the NPOV enforcement model.  In medicine, by
contrast, there's relative agreement about what's mainstream and what isn't.

-Durova

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:24 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/5/8 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
>
> > Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and
> the
> > other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how
> > does it help our
> > discussion to to say either of these things?
>
>
> The trouble with ethnic conflict articles is that, rather than a few
> problem editors, there's an effectively infinite stream of partisans.
> (For whatever reason: local education is often partisan rather than
> NPOV?) So, even though a core of opinionated-though-neutral editors
> accumulates, there's an eternal stream of people who don't know and
> don't care about NPOV or Wikipedia principles in general - as far as
> they're concerned, someone is being WRONG on the Internet.
>
>
> - d.
>
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