User talk:68.97.228.190

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[edit] America: From Freedom to Fascism

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! Although you have made a few edits since the middle of last year, it appears no one has extended a formal welcome until now. Here are some links that may be interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/FAQ (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Attribution (official policy; combined from

"Verifiability": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
and
"No Original Research": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus (official policy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:ATT/FAQ (proposed policy, guideline or process)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines (guideline)

Regarding your addition of three templates to the above-referenced article, as you can see the labels have been reverted by other editors. Instead of adding such labels, you probably should consider discussing your suggestions about an article in the talk (discussion) page for the article. For example, the labels you attempted to add essentially state that the article is not written with a neutral point of view, or that it may have a personally invested tone, or that the factual accuracy is disputed, or that the article may be unduly influenced by biased opinions, or that the article needs a real world perspective. Because you have not discussed any of these concerns in the talk page for the article, the mere addition of the labels in the article itself would not appear to be appropriate. This article has been extensively edited and discussed by and among numerous Wikipedia editors for about a year, and the present state of the article represents a community consensus about how the article should read. Because consensus can change, however, you are encouraged to read the prior comments on the talk page and to discuss, on the talk page, any changes you believe would be appropriate.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia, and happy editing! Yours, Famspear 21:33, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Oh, just as a follow up, I note that one of your edit summary comments was that you do not have "time to nitpick everything in the article, the general message is biased against the film, this needs to be neturalised [sic]." First, the fact that you believe the "general message" in the article is biased against the film America: From Freedom to Fascism does not necessarily mean that the article is in fact biased, or that the article lacks a neutral point of view for purposes of Wikipedia. Second, when you review the Wikipedia policies and guidelines you should find that Neutral POV does not require that the article be written in such a way that the reader comes away without a clear sense of how the majority of relevant experts view the subject of the article. Neutral POV does not require that Wikipedia give equal weight to minority or fringe viewpoints rejected by the majority of experts in the relevant field of knowledge, and minority and fringe viewpoints should be identified as such. If for whatever reason you feel you do not have time to "nitpick everything in the article" by discussing with other editors on the talk page to work for consensus, then the short cut of merely adding labels at the top of the article probably is not going to be considered appropriate. Yours, Famspear 21:53, 12 April 2007 (UTC)