User:Bon courage/A POV that draws a source.
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Wikipedia's core neutrality policy says that articles shall represent "fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic".
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A POV that draws a source,
is like a cart that draws a horse.
The best way to find these views is carry out a disinterested search to find the WP:BESTSOURCES – the highest-quality reliable sources – and then to summarize them.
Sometimes however, editors will mistakenly start with a "view" and then select sources to support it. Such a selection of sources is unlikely to be the same as the WP:BESTSOURCES, and will tend to lead to an article with a WP:NPOV imbalance.