Template talk:POV-check-section

Conformity to POV-check tag
Question. Shouldn't this tag look more like this one: and not this one?

color of tag
I realize that generally, content alert boxes use orange, but the orange tag is considered ugly, and should therefore be used for full-fledged content disputes. For cases where one editor is concerned about the POV of an article, I propose this:

(Note: this proposal was discussed and rejected at the village pump, but I am relisting it here to see if that is really a consensus or not.) 69.140.152.55 (talk) 02:14, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

reopening the discussion
As I understand it, you nominate an article for POV-check if you think that it may have a non-neutral point of view. An article gets tagged with NPOV if it is the subject of a serious dispute, possibly involving multiple editors, as reflected on its talk page.

(Note that I have listed this proposal before, where a more experienced editor pointed out to me that WP:AMBOX specifies an orange color for the stripe on the left side of content-related article-message boxes. However, WP:AMBOX is listed as a guideline rather than a policy, and besides, even though the messageboxes are color-coded by category, the guideline also contains a dictum that "The colour-coding helps to inform of the severity of the issues at a glance."  Thus, I am re-listing this to see if my proposed change is really against consensus.)

69.140.152.55 (talk) 02:01, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

 Unarchived to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 69.140.152.55 (talk) 00:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Try Template talk:POV-check for this. Stifle (talk) 11:12, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I might suggest that the current guideline is sensible and that we should stick with it for the sake of consistency. POV-check may be less severe that NPOV, but it is still about the content of an article and not just about its style. Therefore you could argue that it is more "severe" than a style-related tag. MSGJ (talk) 11:23, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Copied from Village Pump archive to generate a more thorough discussion so that new or broader consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below, or at Template talk:POV-check. Thanks, 69.251.180.224 (talk) 17:51, 4 August 2010 (UTC)