Thread:Ironwestie/@comment-2170536-20140423022613/@comment-2170536-20140423184913

Thank you for your response, and I am absolutely in agreement. I'd welcome any feedback the community has, and I apologize for not responding during the initial discussion. I had some health issues arise a few months ago and was not active here (or anywhere, for that matter) for some time, and evidently missed the entire conversation.

I did not mean to imply you weren't familiar with NPOV concepts; in fact it was obvious to me that you had indeed read the Wikipedia NPOV article. What I meant to say is that the guide, as written, seemed to emphasize "third person" as being the most important point rather than the "give equal weight to all points of view". I just wanted to make sure that people reading the guide understood that writing in the third person is preferable insomuch that it supports NPOV, not that writing in the third person guarantees, or encompasses, NPOV. As I was reading it I was imagining someone coming away with "neutral point of view means that I must write from the third person (i.e. a neutral third party) perspective", and missing the whole point of it, which I know wasn't your intention at all.

If you would prefer to move this conversation to the forums that is perfectly acceptable to me, and I can respond there if you like.