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== Neurolinguistic programming in Wikipedia ==
== Neurolinguistic programming in Wikipedia ==
Pretty much any subject you search Google for – let's say 'Neurolinguistic programming', the article about it in Wikipedia comes first in the ranking. That makes Wikipedia an attractive target for determined groups of individuals who want to present their idea or product in a global market, free of charge. Join the encylopedia that anyone can edit, write an article about, let's say, 'Neurolinguistic programming', and you have as much free advertising as you want.
Wikipedia has a 'Neutral Point of View' policy, and the theory is that any overtly biased article on NLP, crystal healing, or whatever, will be overwritten by someone else who will come along and edit the article to a more 'neutral point of view'. The great weapon in the neutralist's arsenal is the NPOV policy itself. This tells you it is not what you believe to be true that is important – not even if you know it to be true, in the philosopher's justified true belief sense. What is important is that what you say is verifiable. He, or she who can cite reputable, authoritative peer-reviewed research against what
NPOV is a clever and excellent policy. And in theory it will work, so long as all those who understand it and can be bothered to apply it turn up to edit the article. I.e professional, academics, researchers. But look at the NLP article
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neuro-linguistic_programming&oldid=33400304
with now (January 2008) (here I am using another great feature of Wikipedia, the ability to roll back to any version of the encylopedia as it was at some point in the past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neuro-linguistic_programming&oldid=182254945 as of 17 December 2007
Neurolinguistic programming receives probably more attention in Wikipedia than any other apparently scientific subject. The following articles were all started by, and mainly written by [[Directory:FT2/FT2]].
Neurolinguistic programming receives probably more attention in Wikipedia than any other apparently scientific subject. The following articles were all started by, and mainly written by [[Directory:FT2/FT2]].
