Wikipedia:Votes for NPOVing

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• Prince Albert piercing
  • Eclecticology May 18, 2002, because : I agree with Karen; when a writer resorts to words such as "dumbass" and "idiot" he does not convince me that his facts are correct.
  • Karen Johnson May 17, 2002, because : This piece has been turned into an argument between the first writer and the second, rather than an encylopedia entry
• Microsoft
  • The Anome May 21, 2002, because : contentious subject -- see talk page
• Reciprocal System of Theory
  • The Anome May 23, 2002, because : RS proponents appear to be editing this to remove mentions of mainstream criticism
  • The Anome May 21, 2002, because : appears to be mostly written by a proponent
• Jean-Charles de Borda
  • The Anome May 21, 2002, because : this is one-sided advocacy at the moment
• Palestinian terrorism
  • Gianfranco May 23, 2002, because : this isn't an easy subject, of course, but I still cannot see a proportional attention in avoiding mere comments or references to what involved parties say. Can we try again, please?
• Thealogy
  • maveric149 May 25, 2002
• Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • JeLuF May 25, 2002, because : written by an admirer of the Guru, should really be NPOVed
• Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
  • JeLuF May 25, 2002, because : same as with the other khan
• Wage slavery
  • maveric149 May 27, 2002, because : I may be wrong, but this article seems to be written in very focused manor that only talks about one narrow definition of the term
    • Daniel C. Boyer May 31, 2002: a Marxist analysis should be added to the colloquial U.S. usage in the article and it could stand to be edited a lot.
• New Deal
  • RobLa June 1, 2002, because : Clear anti-New Deal slant
• Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
  • PierreAbbat June 1, 2002, because : Internationally recognized among leaders? Leaders of what? Of Sufism? Sounds like it came from a brochure advertising him as speaker.
• Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • PierreAbbat June 1, 2002, because : This too sounds like it came from a Sufi brochure. What's a Tansen?
• Painting
  • Daniel C. Boyer June 6, 2002, because: Perhaps there could be a more NPOV discussion of this point: "Interestingly enough, the "modern" art community has started referring to pastel and colored pencil compositions as paintings, just to muddy the waters..."
• Reality
  • Daniel C. Boyer June 6, 2002, becuase : Subject is approached from a realist bias and even reality-enforcing viewpoint. Rewrite from a more NPOV, especially as regards psychosis.
• Scottish Rite
  • Stepnwolf June 9, 2002, because : information incomplete and misleading
• BBC News 24
  • The Anome June 11, 2002, because : needs editing for NPOV (although I agree the BBC is excellent)
• Kashmir
  • The Anome June 11, 2002, because : now contains violently opposed points of view, with attribution as per NPOV -- needs expanding, and factoring out of non-contentious agreed facts (if any)
• Church of Satan
  • maveric149 June 12, 2002, because : Under the blank page is a biased "defense" of the church that should be rewritten for NPOV and the thoughts of critics added
• Club XO
  • maveric149 June 12, 2002, because : Commercial advertisement that may need to go back in deletion queue if this is just yet another club and not anything special to Kansas City
• Data mining
  • jheijmans June 15, 2002, because : article is good, but clearly written "against" data mining
• Observation
  • Toby Bartels June 19, 2002, because : Only refers to observation in the sense of birdwatching -- needs observation in the sense of empirical science as well.
• Damien Echols
  • jheijmans June 19, 2002, because : unclear what this is about exactly, but saying somebody is on death row for a crime he didn't commit doesn't sound NPOV to me
    • How is it now? All of my facts are from the site that anonymous linked to, but I think it's fair. DanKeshet, Wednesday, June 19, 2002
• Shining Path
  • Daniel C. Boyer June 20, 2002, because : Fails to mention misdeeds of Fujimori et al. (other Peruvian presidents or alleged presidents) against PCP and others. And why the title, which is a total fake and which has never been used by the organisation itself?
• College American football
  • Toby Bartels June 21, 2002, because : I'd like people from outside the US to confirm that the phrase "college football" is not commonly used in their countries; otherwise this redirect is inappropriate (note also the previously existing College Football).
• Satellite state
  • Daniel C. Boyer June 24, 2002, because : Would anyone (in the U.S.) ever describe a state as a U.S. "satellite state"?
    • Gianfranco June 24, 2002: The expression was used in Western Europe in the same sense and with the same meaning as in the article. If I well remember it was derived from a sentence in a speech of someone in the 60s (J.F.Kennedy?). I believe the article is correctly neutral as it is.
    • Toby Bartels, Monday, June 24, 2002: I'm an American, and I'd describe, say, South Vietnam or (for some purposes) even Israel as a "satellite" of the U.S.. 'Course, I'm not mainstream for this country by any means. All that said, if "satellite state" was historically applied primarily to Eastern Europe (and I don't know that it wasn't), then the article seems NPOV now. OTOH, it could certainly stand to be expanded with more examples too.
• Rabbinic literature
  • Toby Bartels June 25, 2002, because : I redirected this to Talmud, assuming that the article I was wikifying meant the Talmud, and no other Rabbinic literature was discussed in Wikipedia. Would somebody familiar with our Jewish material either confirm this or turn the entry into a fairer disambiguation page (or something)?
• Heimatvertriebene
  • Toby Bartels June 25, 2002, because : See Wikipedia utilities/Old Page titles to be deleted talk. (I suspect that what the article refers to as "eastern Germany" is more commonly known as "western Poland" today.)