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| (Posted at Wikipedia_talk:Neutrality Project, responding to a question, what NPOV is and whether one should always present an opposing view.)
Wikipedia articles are not required to invent or embellish an opposing point of view if there isn't one. We are reporting upon a subject, whatever the article topic may be. Within that, some facts (or their interpretations) will be contested, others will be mostly accepted, others again will be almost universally accepted. We are obligated to ensure that when the article is complete, it mirrors and characterises, without re-enacting, the subject to which it refers. The presence of opposing views in the article is purely a function of whether there were significant opposing views in the subject itself. The acid test if NPOV is achieved, is the map-territory relation -- the extent to which the article can be used as a "map" to guide a lay-person through the "territory" of the subject, including its relevant detours, conflicts and highways. Like a map, no article perfectly mirrors a subject, nor is this expected; if it did it would have to re-enact and be as large as the subject itself. There is a "cutoff" of detail, called "notability" (or sometimes, "salience") in Wikipedia, and a good map must have enough detail, but not too much as to be unwieldy and unhelpful in navigating ones way.
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| Writing for an encyclopedia is not the same as writing for a newspaper, or even an academic paper. In a way, it's more like writing the bibliography for an academic paper. In a way, we aren't even trying to decide (as experts would) what is "true" and what isn't, because that's not what this is. We are summarizing a field, creating a balanced collation of multiple perspectives and views. Theres few decisions to make, few opinions to form, other than to observe which views seem to be more or less relevant views of note, and to understand each (and its sources) well enough to document.
We care that we document each view carefully and with understanding. That is the "truth" we work to here. That, and that alone. Our truth is the truth of the bibliography, and the measure is, have we represented collectively in summary the multiple verifiable sources of note. Drawing editorial conclusions from all of them is the end-use of an encyclopedia, not the work of encyclopedists. |
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Wikipedia and me
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I started editing in 2004, became an administrator a while later, then appointed to the Arbitration Committee in December 2007. In these roles, I have dealt with privacy related issues, and a large number of fairly nasty abusers and abusive admins. We're here to write a reference work, which means fair handling is important.
I lean towards community work and a level field. I pushed for communal input in the Checkuser/Oversight appointment process, provided the first on-wiki analysis of Checkuser work, and a load of others. At Arbcom itself I fought hard for better process, a formal structure for proposals to be examined and voted on, and better collaboration/workflow.
As of October 2009, I stepped down from some roles. I'm still round though. I was a member of the 5 year strategy taskforce, in 2010 I was asked to visit and contribute at the Foundation's offices, and in 2011 I was invited onto the WMF Communications Committee. In 2012 I was active in the SOPA community decision, primarily co-ordinating and reviewing our messages, posts, and information flow. I was also heavily involved in reviewing the site's legal Terms of Use.
I focus on:
- Writing content - I've written over a hundred articles and substantively contributed to many more. I have a wide interest; my contributions include physics and law, film plots and clinical science, technology and religion.
- Fixing messes and problems that get in the way of editors - I help experienced users with difficult article wordings, input into difficult discussions, difficult neutrality cases, 2nd opinion, admin problem, email responses, and sensitive problems.
- Improving editorial processes and guidance - I work on policy wordings, process updates, all the things that can help and hinder us in improving the project. If one process or policy is cleaned up, or one poor wording is fixed, a thousand editors benefit from it and will save their time, stress and frustration.
I also have a "real" life, and balancing the two's important. But I'm free to choose my work hours. It helps :)
I'll update this at some point. Right now the old version's just a little out of date.
Recent articles and contributions
Incomplete list
File hosting service January 2012 Major update Included legal matters from the Megaupload seizure and distinguishing features from Atari v. Rapidshare AG. Murder of Stephen Lawrence December 2011 Major expansions and refactors Prompted by a verdict after 17 years on one of Britain's highest profile racial crimes of all time, this one case changed the social and cultural world of a country and its police force. Fusion power December 2011
March 2011Major expansion and reorganization Higgs boson December 2011 - Jan 2012 Higgs boson submitted for peer review as GA Expansion and reorganisation The Higgs Boson hit the news hard in December, but our article didn't explain much about this crucial area of cutting edge physics, nor the linked areas behind it. TRESOR December 2011 New Novel encryption module for Linux, notable for keeping keys in the CPU, the only public encryption system known to defeat cold boot attacks on system RAM. Laws of robotics October 2011 New Actual laws studied in the real world, as opposed to the fictional one. Exile April 2011 Major expansion and rewrite Resulting from Arab Spring media reports. DDR4 SDRAM April 2011 DYK 
New DDR4 is the newest up-and-coming memory type for desktop computers. First test samples were produced in Q1 2011 - expect to see this hitting the market in 2012 and going mainstream around 2014-2015. Gödel's incompleteness theorems April 2011 Rewrite of proof sketch of first theorem Shōgun (novel) February 2011 Rewrite of plot Mustafa Abdul Jalil February 2011 Expansion and reorganization Ex–justice minister and Chairman of National Transition Council in Libya Instinctive drowning response - and: Drowning
December 2010 Drowning response: New Along with Drowning (cleaned up) a crucial article. This one article is one of those I value most. This article isn't about mere information. Wikipedia will directly over time save many lives. It's humbling.
- Wikipedia administrators
- Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedia Volunteer Response Team members
- WikiProject Wikipedia participants
- Wikipedia administrators willing to make difficult blocks
- Wikipedians who use VoA script
- Wikipedia administrators willing to handle RevisionDelete requests
- Third opinion Wikipedians