User talk:PlatoCantRepent

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Thankyou, I'm new here...--PlatoCantRepent (talk) 04:05, 7 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MapReduce

Hi, as you may see I undid your edits on MapReduce. The reason was that it seemed to be strongly influenced by your personal opinion. In Wikipedia we want the articles to be neutral (click the link to learn more). That doesn't mean we ignore conflicts on a subject.

However, we want to present all published opinions on a subject, according to their importance, without passing judgement.

For the MapReduce article, that you cannot write "X and Y criticised it, because they didn't understand" - that would be your personal point of view (POV).

What you could write is something like "XXX argued that the criticism is invalid because" or "XXX argued that this criticism comes from a misunderstanding" - if XXX is someone who published an opinion in a widely-read source (e.g. someone's personal blog doesn't usually count, unless it's a famous one).

Hope that helps. Averell (talk) 08:43, 11 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]