User talk:Zenwhat/Sandbox

Classical liberalism[edit]

Wikilibertarianism would fall into the category of classical liberalism, wouldn't it? Sarsaparilla (talk) 00:39, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NPOV[edit]

"NPOV" itself might be considered an example of Newspeak. See http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213 .

Jimmy then started a specialized policy page he called "Neutral Point of View" (here is the current version). I confess I don't much like this name as a name for the policy, because it implies that to write neutrally, or without bias, is actually to express a point of view, and, as the definite article is used, a single point of view at that. "Neutrality", "neutral", and "neutrally" are better to use for the noun, adjective, and adverb. But the acronym "NPOV" came to be used for all three, by Wikipedians wanting to seem hip, and then the unfortunate "POV" came to be used when the perfectly good English word "biased" would do.

Sarsaparilla (talk) 00:41, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]