NPOV is not just a rule. It's what allows us to have a project at all. It is 
not "right" to violate NPOV because reality hurts someone's feelings. Reality 
frequently is painful. It's neither possible nor our job to change that.
        It's our job to make a neutral, factual, verifiable reference work. Not 
to impose our notions of right and wrong.
        Polarizing the issue into "those who agree with me are right and all 
others are wrongdoers" is unhelpful.

-----Original Message-----

From:  Ken Arromdee <[email protected]>
Subj:  Re: [WikiEN-l] Biography of Living persons
Date:  Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:13 pm
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To:  English Wikipedia <[email protected]>

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 [email protected] wrote:
>       I've even been told, by someone who should know better, that BLP is
>       more important than NPOV, and saw not a bit of outrage.

NPOV is a rule.  BLP is about doing what's right.

Some people elevate rules over doing what's right.  I'm not one of them.


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