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etc., is against the law. Law is not just a view, it is a rule of society which has punishments attached, and large organizations of law enforcement and judicial personnel to enforce and adjudicate. To present all of that as just a view, is POV, as it skews the picture of what is going on in the real world. Also, society, from the top levels of government to local government jurisdictions to hospitals and the entire medical field, has policies and protocols in place and very actively implemented with respect to suicide in the form of emergency medical response. This is also much more than a view, and involves the expenditure of public funds, the employment of emergency service personnel, and the actions one can expect of almost every doctor. Phenomena and their epiphenomena have greater relevance and a higher position on the reporting hierarchy than issues about those phenomena. Debates or views about the issue of whether or not suicide is right or wrong are secondary to the presentment of what suicide is, and to the organizational measures put in place to manage it. These are physically relevent to the topic, not merely discussions or philosophical positions about the topic as views are. Somehow, in your interest of preserving NPOV, you've lost sight of that. Suicide is far more than just an issue. And so is society's very active response to suicide.
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and a reluctance to provide coverage to advocacy and how-to descriptions. Suicide is a multi-faceted subject, and so NPOV has been discussed concerning many of its facets and corresponding issues (such as concerning someone trying to impose religious views in the medical section, whether we should we provide links to how-to sites, and "how much coverage should be devoted to methods?", etc.). The red flag of NPOV has been raised most often when the prospect of harming readers is discovered. And that's a good thing. So providing help resources for those seriously considering suicide or those trying to help them isn't NPOV, it is representative of our society's norms, and it is common sense. It is what is most relevant to such readers' situation. Also, Knowledge (XXG)'s policies makes a provision for exceptions to all its rules -- so if NPOV or any other rule is an impediment to making
Knowledge (XXG) better, the impeding rule goes away -- and providing helpful information on emergency protocols so that they are most easily found in the article on suicide certainly qualifies as an exception to impeding policies. But most significantly, if we err, shouldn't we err in favor of saving lives rather than encouraging their end? The first mistake can be remedied, the second cannot.
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people looking up the topic. But, of all the people looking up the topic, it is escpecially relevant to readers in crisis, and that's what we need to take into account here. It has to do with relevance rather than POV pushing. Emergency response is the normal procedure in the U.S. and much of the rest of the world. Simply reporting that is not so much posing a position on an issue as it is representing the current state of affairs in society. Not to give it priority in presentation is to not give it its representative weight. Third, the pro-suicide/anti-suicide issue has very little or nothing to do with crisis cases, which are for the most part caused by depression. No major faction in any debate that I've ever heard of maintains the position that depressed people should be allowed to, encouraged to, or assisted in committing suicide. And it isn't hurting anyone to place the section on intervention first. All the rest of the material is still there. Scrolling half-a-screen or so down isn't a high price to pay for catering to emergencies first.
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those in greatest need. So, if a person who is contemplating suicide accesses this template, do you believe it is better that he get a detailed description of how to do it, or that 55% of suicides blow themselves away with a firearm? That could only help him go through with it. And what if his mother was looking it up instead? Do you think she needs that first? No, she would need to get her kid into medical treatment as soon as possible. She may have looked it up on
Knowledge (XXG) because she just didn't know what to do about it. In such situations, time is at stake, and every second may count. They can go back to the article and read the rest later after the immediate crisis is taken care of. You're not thinking in terms of the crisis cases. The order of presentation needs to be prioritized with respect to them. After all, Knowledge (XXG) is first and foremost a public service.
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suicide crisis (such as that caused by depression) should be encouraged or advised to commit suicide, nor would either side in the debate support the withholding of crisis help information from such persons. No, because that's a whole different issue. The assisted suicide issue only becomes relevant for individuals in continuous pain and suffering usually due to a terminal illness or extremely debilitating condition, which goes beyond crisis management. So the NPOV policy applied to the suicide article allows for the euthanasia issue to be covered. Invoking
Knowledge (XXG)'s NPOV policy in such a way as to hamper the provision of community service information, to those involved in a suicide crisis who may be seeking or calling out for help, is inappropriate.
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We're not "pushing" it, nor advertising it. I think the articles should be ready to assist better than they are, and they can do that without specifically advising. All I'm advocating is reporting what's out there, in the order in which crisis cases may need it most. The disclaimers still stand.
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Intervention should be top and center. It represents how our entire society is set up to deal with suicide, and though it may be POV with respect to the issues pertaining to suicide, it isn't POV with respect to suicide as a phenomenon. Suicide is an act. An act which, like murder, arson, theft,
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I think the problem here is that the language used in portraying this project is poor (no offense) so it seems that it's trying to get something done that it's not meant to do. The intentions are very good and like
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of every telephone book and 9-1-1 is not only printed on every pay phone (in the U.S.), it's free to call. Because they are most relevant. The same applies to the treatment of emergency-related topics in the encyclopedia. We have to anticipate the needs of readers and what is most relevant to
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Not quite, on three counts. First, I replaced "Terminology" with "Suicidal phenomena", which is what is covered in that section. Second, Bush is a person, not an act or event. Suicide has laws and medical protocols established for preventing it which are directly relevant to the topic and to
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The definition is lacking. It should read "the unlawful act of". Also, saving the lives of potential suicide victims is directly related - that's why police, firemen, paramedics, and doctors are all trained to intervene. With respect to the norms of society, intervention is the most relevant
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The above thread, that is, of what order the names of articles should be presented on a navigation box, has already been resolved to the satisfaction of both sides in the debate. Concerning the list of articles on the page adjacent to this talk page, I'm glad we agree that the articles need
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My written encyclopedia has just a couple of sentences near the end. Knowledge (XXG) should be no differently. Plus, I think this has been discussed many times before on the suicide talk page over the years.
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which says that WP should not be used for medical advice. I know you have good intentions, but I don't think we need to suggest that WP should be the source of all medical research.
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