> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:36 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> NPOV is our key innovation. Much more radical than letting anyone edit >> the website. > > Two things which, incidentally, go hand in hand. NPOV would be > virtually impossible to achieve without open and public debate about > every single damn sentence. > > --Oskar
NPOV, taken seriously, is impossible to achieve. But that is not the problem, NPOV is a process which is subject to manipulation by organized interest groups. Very few articles on Wikipedia about significant contested issues come close to the goal of being NPOV. There are winners who have played the game successfully and have succeeded in imposing their point of view on key articles in a major reference work. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
