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 :::::WP:NPOV certainly seems to be flexible enough to allow you to provide an opinion, providing there is a virtual consensus amongst published sources (""without bias, all significant views""). It's on this basis that we're allowed to say things like ""X is seen one of the best writers of his era"": I see this sort of thing in FAs all the time. I'm not too bothered here, but ""Let the reader decide"" is just an essay.   "