User talk:Newsroom hierarchies: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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:No, of course it's true, and I don't have a problem with noting it somewhere (pretty sure it is in there). 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)

::Yes, you're right: there is nothing wrong with the current intro sentence. But I think the intro as a whole could do a better job providing readers with clear understanding of the topic. Check out [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marriage&oldid=138061274 this] version from a year ago, which was fairly stable for awhile. It feels a bit like we're losing ground! ([[User:Sdsds|sdsds]] - ''[[User talk:Sdsds|talk]]'') 01:28, 20 June 2008 (UTC)