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Hi! I too would probably have reverted the "most commonly" phrasing inserted recently, but only because it wasn't supported by any prior (recent) discussion. In fact that language would better serve to "orient" most readers of the article. (Of course most readers already *think* they know what a "marriage" is! ;-) Do you truly doubt that "one man, one woman" is currently the most common form of marriage? As a "fact", that isn't explicitly POV, is it? ([[User:Sdsds|sdsds]] - ''[[User talk:Sdsds|talk]]'') 00:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

:No, of course it's true, and I don't have a problem with noting it somewhere (pretty sure it is). But while most marriages are between one man and one woman, quite a few are not. That statement that I removed, positioned in that way in the very first sentence of the article, was certainly POV pushing. There are lots of marriage customs we could cite in that first sentence that are "normal". For instance, though monogamy is the most common form of marriage worldwide, societies/peoples that permit polygamy outnumber or rival in number those that permit only monogamy as a marriage pattern. Wouldn't a fact like that be inappropriate and POV in the first sentence?

:In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with the current intro sentence as it encompasses all of the forms of marriage that exist. (The sentence that follows is pretty ethnocentric though.) --[[User:Newsroom hierarchies|Newsroom hierarchies]] ([[User talk:Newsroom hierarchies#top|talk]]) 01:19, 20 June 2008 (UTC)