[Wikipedia-l] Re: Neutral Point of View Has Been Compromised in Favor of Verifiability and Claims of Consensus.

2024-04-22 Thread Big Mouth Commie via Wikipedia-l
I did enter into a particular dispute about calling someone a "conspiracy theorist" in the first sentence of their BLP article, but after doing so, I mentioned it to my partner, and they pointed out other examples of neutrality being disregarded under the excuse of verifiability. This missive

[Wikipedia-l] Re: Neutral Point of View Has Been Compromised in Favor of Verifiability and Claims of Consensus.

2024-04-22 Thread The Cunctator
Are you talking about anything concrete or specific? Otherwise, it seems like you are recognizing openly known tensions that all editors of good faith (which is pretty much all editors) try to negotiate with a spirit of openness and collegiality. Though sometimes we don't live up to that ideal. (I

[Wikipedia-l] Neutral Point of View Has Been Compromised in Favor of Verifiability and Claims of Consensus.

2024-04-22 Thread Big Mouth Commie via Wikipedia-l
Reading the neutral point of view policy page it's plain to see that we should never, in wikivoice, call subjects of articles disparaging names. Even if it has been repeatedly used to describe the subject of the article, even if the sources are reliable sources, Wikipedia must remain neutral.