User:Petri Krohn/How to get rid of POV crap
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 | This page in a nutshell: To get rid of POV crap, create something better. |
POV crap exists because fringe supporters have been able to start an article under a POV title. Once the title is poisoned, there is no point in trying to fix the content. The only way forward is to create alternate content under a different title. To avoid initial opposition, it may be useful to start the new article in your user space. Ask for like-minded or neutral editors to contribute to the draft. Make the article far better and better sourced that the politicized crap. "Steal" and merge useful content from the povish article. Also include the fringe views, but present them from a neutral-point-view.
At first you only aim to isolate the POV crap. Neutral editors will come to your article. You can safely leave the crap to the fringe POV-pushers. They will make the article even worse, but in the end it will be useful for your aims. Only when your new article far exceeds the crap do you start merge or deletion discussion. By then it should be evident to everyone, that the crap is a POVFORK of your article – not the other way around. If you do this well, the crap will melt away. If it does not, then maybe it was not total crap after all.
| “ | You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. | ” |
| — Buckminster Fuller – [1] | ||