[Wikimedia-l] : WMF resolution on neutral point of view

[Fred Bauder]

> I know that, you know that, people participating in this thread knows
that,
> but for all practical purposes that's a forgotten random pre-WMF edit.
I am
> not questioning the importance of Neutral Point of View, one of our
core values. While larger wikis have this value enshrined and well
enforced, smaller emerging wikis sometimes struggle with the concept.
If a wiki decides to ignore NPOV and decides to censor content or over
value a particular perspective, we lack a resolution to confront or
guide them.
>
> There exists at least one example of this
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/ace.wikipedia_and_Prophet_Muhammad_images
>
> As for the point of non-Wikipedia projects, I think it still applies.
If an
> entire language edition of wiktionary, wikiversity, etc entirely advocates
> a certain point of view we should have problems with it. Consider if
something like what happened to ace.wikipedia were to happen on a
wiktionary or wikiversity project.
>
>
>   -- とある白い猫  (To Aru Shiroi Neko)

It could be restated and emphasized, but it is policy, see:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Neutral_point_of_view

Fred

By the way, I don't agree with it, but that is another discussion.
However, that is why I know about it, its origin, and its settled nature.

>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:56 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
wrote:
>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I realize Resolution:Biographies of living people[1] implies this but
>> I
>> > fail to see any resolution that establishes neutral point of view as
>> one
>> > of
>> > our non-negotiable values. I think there is merit in having an
over-arching
>> > resolution on a Neutral Point of View policy.
>> >
>> > I also feel Resolution:Biographies of living people suffers from the
absence of such a definition of what exactly "neutral point of view"
supposed to mean.
>> >
>> > [1]:
>> >
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people
>>
>> Neutral point of view is one of the founding principles of Wikipedia and
>> was promulgated by its founder, Jimmy Wales, and strongly supported by
its co-founder, Larry Sanger, see:
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view&diff=270453&oldid=270452#The_original_statement_of_the_neutral_point_of_view_policy
>>
>> The first edits to the page is dated November 10, 2001 but I think the
very first edits of that page are no longer available. It's not an
unwritten constitution...
>>
>> Fred
>>
>>
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