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(Moved old talk to the above page--the page was getting very long.)

I think it's time for me to try to write a long essay about what neutral point of view does and does not entail (in the Meta-Wikipedia, of course, and I'll invite people to edit it). I agree that the article at present obviously reflects an anti-feminist bias, but I also agree that this can and should be fixed without simply deleting useful content.

Look, we are all reasonably intelligent, articulate people here, or we wouldn't be working on this and caring so much about it. As I see it, we have to make it our goal to understand each others' perspectives and to work hard to make sure that those other perspectives are fairly represented. When any dispute arises as to what the article "should" say or what is "true," we must not adopt an adversarial stance; we must do our best to step back and ask ourselves, "How can this dispute be fairly characterized?" This has to be asked repeatedly as each new controversial point is stated. It is not our jobto edit Wikipedia so that it speaks for our own idiosyncratic views and then defend those edits against all comers; it is our job to work together, mainly adding new content, but also, when necessary, coming to a compromise about how a controversy should be described, so that it is fair to all sides.

I know many of you, and I have great confidence in your abilities. So I am very confident we can do this!

More later in that essay which I will now bang out. --LMS


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