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Subject:    [Textbook-l] Re: Wikipedia may provide books made with different perspectives input, whilst others c
From:       Daniel Mayer <maveric149 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-06-30 6:37:48
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Toby wrote:
>But anyway, I doubt that DPOV 
>will ever be written up. Jimmy invented 
>NPOV, and he says that NPOV includes 
>what mav wants. 
>
>If anything happens, it's that [[NPOV]] 
>will have to be clarified. But since Jimmy 
>also keeps agreeing with my 
>intepretations of it, I see no risk that 
>any such clarification will threaten your 
>book. The only alternative is that Jimmy's 
>opinions are incoherent, but nobody is 
>arguing that.

Yep - all I ever really wanted was to clarify NPOV to suit the needs of 
textbooks (to give it a new framework or focus to work in - I mistakingly 
called that "POV"). I was just trying to be clear by giving it a new name but 
Jimbo has convinced me that the needed changes are not drastic enough to 
warrent a new name. It will just be the "textbook's version of NPOV."

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)

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