Talk:npov

RFV discussion: October 2016–May 2017

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npov

The all-lowercase spelling is highly improbable. The all-uppercase spelling would need citations showing its use (not mention) in independent sources. -- Pedrianaplant (talk) 14:11, 9 October 2016 (UTC)

• 2007, Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén, "From Social to Socialist Media: The Critical Potential of the Wikiworld", in Peter McLaren & Joe L. Kincheloe (eds.), Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, Peter Lang, 147.

  The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views.

• 2008, Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, Peter Lang, 120.

  Similarly, it is also important to understand the fundamental operation of NPOV in full detail: contrary to the synthesis commonly required for the coverage of topics in conventional encyclopedias, NPOV does not require the establishment of a universally accepted consensus description of the topic at hand—a kind of graveyard peace between opposing factions, achieved through arrival at a compromise which satisfies no one and omits any controversial points not acceptable to one of the participants.

• 2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, Cengage Learning, 18th ed., 332.

  Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.

All upper-case. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 15:53, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Move to NPOV. This might have been better at WT:RFM. DCDuring TALK 12:32, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

So moved. RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 00:54, 23 May 2017 (UTC)