NPOV en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɛn.piː.əʊ.viː/ (UK)
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, taxonomic:Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of neutral point of view, the guideline of all Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles.
alt of neutral point of view
Content creators and editors are encouraged to filter material through a sieve of strict standards known to insiders as NPOV, NOR, RS, and V.
2015, June Jamrich Parsons, New Perspectives on Computer Concepts 2016, Comprehensive, 18th edition, Cengage Learning, section 332: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.
2008, Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, Peter Lang, section 120:The NPOV is self-consciously a view, not the absence of all views.
2007, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén, “From Social to Socialist Media: The Critical Potential of the Wikiworld”, in Peter McLaren, Joe L. Kincheloe, editors, Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now?, Peter Lang, section 147:Near-synonyms: point-of-viewlessness; eticness
Antonyms
emicness · worldview · viewpoint · point of view · POV