[WikiEN-l] Our own extreme POV sometimes makes it impossible for us to write NPOV prose

Sat Feb 1 15:46:25 UTC 2003

On Saturday 01 February 2003 04:00 am, Clutch wrote:
>....
> I have no religious or ideological motivation for saying this, but I too
> have read both sides of the story and agree with Ed the global warming
> as an unprecedented and imminent disaster seems like a grand hoax.
>....

With friends like you Ed doesn't need enemies:

Well Clutch you also think there is a grand conspiracy with the US government 
poisoning the American people by adding fluoride to their drinking water. And 
on top of that you think that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. In 
addition there doesn't seem to be an anti-Semite you didn't like (thinking of 
the considerable work you have done to absolutely minimize that aspect of 
Richard Wagner and now Henry Ford). Oh and your work on [[Jehovah's 
Witnesses]] and daughter articles is Witness-friendly enough for publication 
in WatchTower. So IMO your above words carry very little weight - at least 
for me. 

With that said, I do think that Ed's POV in regards to global warming and the 
Unification Church is too great for him to make substantial changes to those 
articles without unintentionally violating NPOV. For example, I know my POV 
on homosexuality is too great to make any changes greater than adding or 
modifying a paragraph in the homosexuality-related articles. 

Some issues are simply hot buttons for people and for the sake of NPOV we 
should voluntarily not make substantive changes to those articles (otherwise 
we unconsciously give our POV too much weight in articles).  Of course there 
are rare people like Montrealais who in spite of his strong POV on gay issues 
is able to make what is IMO NPOV contributions in that area. 

We should all understand that the ability to 'write for the enemy' is 
difficult and that trying to write for your mortal enemy whom you absolutely 
despise is very difficult and impossible to do correctly for most people. 

--mav

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