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[edit] Strategy to avoid POV
Any matter involving Bangladesh in pre-1971 era clearly involves Pakistan and the pre-1947 period includes current day India and Pakistan. Fundamentally there is a key issue of finding information with zero POV. Several sources includes Banglapedia provide fairly factual recollections, which prevent political POV's. Read about NPOV. Due to continued tension between India and Pakistan and due to the role played by various extreme forms of nationalism, any attempt to even slightly include inferences would lead to a constant edit-re-edit warfare, which is to be avoided at all costs.
Hence the following strategies are advised to all contributors to articles and references related to Bangladesh, East Pakistan, West Bengal, Bengali and Bengal:
- Political statements that would take side of either India or Pakistan should be given up in favour of Bangladeshi perspective when in doubt (only refers to articles on Bangladesh)
- When multiple versions of a fact seems to exist, all should be mentioned and described
- If there is continued doubt, information provided by the Government of People's Republic of Bangladesh should be considered final and a note should be made to assert this whenever such overriding assumptions are made
- An attempt should be made to keep distinct the notions of Bangladesh, Bengal and West Bengal - most importantly Bengal should not be used as a synonym for either Bangladesh or West Bengal
- Bengal should not be described as a part of India - instead the more appropriate term West Bengal will be used
- With reference to disputed Bangladeshi political opinions, sources should be cited along with the name of the party that claims that notion
- Before implementing any change in the content based on elimination of POV will should be noted in the Discussion area and left for a week for refutation before the actual edit is carried out
Some of the above strategies are non-conflicting alternative strategies. When in doubt, one is advised to pick the one that suits the situation best.
