Neutral Point of View

Neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing a subject fairly, proportionately, and without editorial bias.^[1] Facts are stated as facts; opinions are attributed to whoever holds them.

Ecosystem and project pages

NPOV matters most where a page describes a project whose own team may be editing it – a structural conflict of interest, covered in full by conflict of interest. Such pages must avoid promotional language ("revolutionary", "the best"), attribute claims about traction or performance to sources, and carry a Written like an advertisement notice banner when they drift into marketing.

Neutrality also applies to what a page leaves out. A project page that records only launches and grants, and never a dormant product or a closed one, is not neutral – the status field and the prose should agree, and both should follow the evidence.

Status is a measurement

Every Ecosystem page carries a status field, and it is where neutrality is easiest to lose. A directory that records launches and grants but never a dormant product or a closed one describes an ecosystem in which nothing ever stops – an omission rather than a falsehood, and still not neutral. A status is therefore set from dated evidence a reader can repeat, and the prose is expected to agree with it.

Radix Rolodex was moved from active to dormant on three readings rather than on a view about the project: its newest published card and deck are both dated 14 February 2026, its deployed bundle was last built on 10 February 2026, and the service is still up with every embed on this wiki still rendering. Nothing about it is broken. It has stopped changing, and the page says only that.

The same discipline stops the field travelling too far the other way. Hermes Protocol reads dormant on four dated checks, and the page states in the same breath that no wind-down was ever announced – closed would be a stronger claim than the evidence carries. Where the evidence is thin, the neutral move is to name the check and its date, not to round the status to whichever end of the scale reads more decisively.

Where a page has drifted into its subject’s own framing, add the Written like an advertisement banner rather than quietly rewriting it, and say in the revision message what was promotional about it – the banner is a request for review addressed to the next editor, and the revision history is public.

See also

• Verifiability
• No original research
• Notability
• Freshness
• Conflict of interest