Talk:John W. Dower

message: (reproduced from the author's talk page):
To expand on my comment on the cleanup page, it is not very NPOV, often stating opinion as fact. "Finest" is also too ambiguous to be used in an encyclopedic article--something specific like "award-winning" or "best-selling" (if true) would be fact based; something like "most respected" could work if backed up with quotes/sources, etc. Niteowlneils 19:50, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with "finest" has nothing to do with the world it's just too vague--it's the same as saying the "best", which begs the question 'in what way?' Most concise? Most comprehensive? Most authoratative? Most suitable for a lay audience? (let alone the questions of 'measured how?', and 'according to whom?'). "...abuse of history..." is one of the debatable opinions stated as fact. Niteowlneils 20:38, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:Niteowlneils|Niteowlneils]] disputes neutrality of this article

message: I don't see any reason that CNN report should be removed, which is a quite neutral one.
: Ok with me. I'm glad we have finally reached an agreement on the text for this article. Wamdebach May 16, 2006,23:45 UTC.
:: It is not me who was arguing with you in the past week. See, it was not my "personal" opinion at all...I am too just too lazy to argue with anyone. Uvgm
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