Anarchopedia:Utility

Anarchopedia is useful. The use that people gain from it may only be an aesthetic one, but it is as useful as possible, and always more useful than not.

This is not merely an answer to Wikipedia's USEFUL rule, which is more erroneous than the average WP rule. Utility answers a great deal of problems that confront a compendium of subjective information (which every wiki including WP will always contain, despite its obfuscation of the issue): balance, PoV, whether it is OK to use biased sources to extract useful information (and it is not always OK)

Balance

shortcut A:T#B

Balance with reference to Utility; while Truth is of uppermost importance, Balance is preferred; mostly because of Justice but Completeness is almost as important a rationale in this case

Point of View

shortcut A:POV

• Most thinking is skewed; one of the ways this is achieved is to propose Point of View as a relative thing.
• The best ideas have less probability of being shared by the majority.
• One of the supports for the idea of PoV is the assumption of bias; this amounts to nothing more than "You would say that" (Tu Quoque). Obviously we want more people to learn more faster, but we should not be surprised if the people who most want to learn are those with the most vested interest.

Notability

Utility also replaces, to a large extent, Notability. Notability has numerous problems, among them the laughable mashup of the rules: Notability vs "Notability is not inherited". Really? But that is all that notability IS... value inherited from the supposed merit of the sources it uses, reflected glory.

See also

• Anarchopedia:Consensus building
• Anarchopedia:Point of View shortcut A:POV
• Anarchopedia:Subjective
• Anarchopedia:Truth (shortcut A:T)
  • Balance A:T#B
• Anarchopedia:Utility (shortcut A:U)