[Wikipedia-l] Re: Why I don't believe (any more) in NPOV

[Toby Bartels]

Björn Lindqvist wrote in part:

>I don't either belive in NPOV. Never did and never will. Whatever
>happens Wikipedia will get the POV of the masses, a conglomerat of all
>authors working on the project.

>Like the cubic earth example, writing "the earth is spherical" wouldnt 
>be correct because 0,001% know it is cubic. Even worse to say that the 
>holocaust has happened because 0,1% know it has. Or saying that God's 
>existance hasn't been proven because 10% know it has.

Actually, 90% know that God exists.
Yet our articles on God don't claim that He does.
So much for the POV of the masses!

>My task is therefore to add my pov on
>things to increase the sum of all recorded human knowledge that
>wikipedia is (coming to be).

If you add your POV by explaining who believes it and why,
rather than simply stating that it's true, then you're NPOV.


-- Toby