Larry Sanger
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I see.
Okay.
So the idea then is that an article that's actually unbiased, that is neutral, doesn't take a stand.
It allows the reader to make up his or her own mind.
That's the general idea.
The great advantage, the great virtue of neutrality is that it respects...
you know, the individual person's autonomy.
You can think what you like, decide what you like.
There's a lot of people in the world that don't like that, though.
I don't know what Wikipedia's policy is now, but it used to be something that I approved of, which is that...
As soon as there's a conviction, then the person can be referred to as a murderer.
But of course, you would also want to say if the person maintains his innocence that
Yeah, something to that effect.
I suppose.
And let's just put it this way.
When you actually start taking neutrality seriously, then such questions like the one that you ask, well, was it a properly constituted tribunal?
I mean, I think so.
But maybe not everybody does.
Does that have a bearing on...
The application of neutrality policy.