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Local NPOV maxima are states of an article or section in which WP:NPOV has been maximized within the domain of marginal edits. A local NPOV maxima may not be the global NPOV maxima, and the local and global maxima may be separated by a deep minima in the space of edits. For this reason, WP:BOLD edits may be required to refactor even a good article or section towards the global NPOV maxima. For contentious topics, the effort required to coordinate a transition to a higher maxima may not be feasible. This phenomena will tend to reduce the quality of controversial articles.

A local NPOV maxima may be reached by an iterative consensus editing process in the same way that mathematical functions reach maxima.