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New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia

A new Wikipedia-adjacent forum has been launched by a certain Barthomelow Blasé, called NPOV. The tagline? “For people who have too much on their plate to care about Framgate.

Origin story

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“So one day I was thinking,” said Mr. Blasé in an interview last Tuesday, “there are places for people who love Wikipedia. Then there are forums for people who criticize Wikipedia. I’m looking at you, redacted.”
“But what about the people in the middle? The ones who read Wikipedia every day, but whose eyes glaze over at the word ‘RfC’? I thought: what about the people who just… don’t care? Where do they go?”
The result is NPOV: a forum “for people who don’t give a FAC.” (The tagline is a work in progress.)

The forum

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The site has already attracted users who appreciate Wikipedia’s existence, just not... everything else about it.
“To the average reader,” Blasé continues, “it’s like: Do I really care if an argument breaks out about whether to use MDY or DMY on a page only 25 people read this year? Do I really care if someone named WizardDonkey87 gets blocked for sockpuppeting in an edit war about switching 'flammable' to 'inflammable'? No. I’m just here to pretend I’ve read the whole article on existentialism when in fact I barely skimmed the intro.”
This sentiment is reflected in various threads with titles like "Why we don't have ANI reason to think about WikiDrama", "Admins we don't care about", "Put a WP:SOCK in all these SPI discussions", to name a few.

One plate or many plates?

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Yet despite its purported intent, various controversies have come upon NPOV. In one thread talking about an unblock request, a commenter was banned for violating the forum's official "Complete Nonchalance" policy.
"We were talking about how much time was wasted, y'know, admins discussing this request, when I kinda started to feel bad for the admins. Like, they've got a hard job. So I said something like, 'Kudos to the sysops for taking time out of fixing those pesky claims with Citation needed for this'," said the banned commenter.
They continue, "Immediately after that a bunch of people made comments like 'If you love Wikipedia so much, why don't you EDIT it?!?' I was quickly banned. So much for 'taking the emotion out of the commotion', which I think is our catchphrase."
The biggest controversy in the forum is the "Plate vs. Plates Debate", which started when someone wondered if “For people who have too much on their plate to care about Framgate", the site's official slogan (maybe) should replace "plate" with "plates".

  • "The word 'people' is PLURAL!!! We need to accompany it with a PLURAL noun!!!"-- DisambiguatedHumankind23
  • "Stop WP:SHOUTING at me, you dumb human!" --EndMyTermWithMyPERM2000

As of press time, the "Plate vs. Plates" debate has been moved to a Meta subforum pending consensus, a formal mediation request, and a user survey on whether anyone cares at all.

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