From: <slimvirgin(a)gmail.com>
I feel Bjorn did not come to the mailing list with entirely clean
hands in this matter. He has previously used quite questionable
sources for other edits himself; he accused Bard, based on nothing
solid, of not even having read the UN progress report; and he implied
that Bard had been evasive when, in fact, Bard had simply not answered
Bjorn's second e-mail. Bjorn also did not tell Bard the information
was for Wikipedia, which I feel he should have done. Also, once Zero
had obtained the report and suggested a way to word the reference to
make it accurate, and Tony had edited that onto the page, Bjorn
decided to create an entirely new category, and moved the information
out of the UN section and into a new section called "Incomplete
estimates" (even though Tony's edit made it clear the estimate was
incomplete, and the words "progress report" imply that anyway.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estimates_of_the_Palestinian_Refu…
This begins to look like POV pushing and not just careful scrutiny of
source material.
Indeed it does. At the same time Bjorn was criticizing this cite, and
basically accusing it of being false, he (in another article) had no problem
whatsoever using this reference to a *blog*
(i.e. a
dubious, tertiary source) as proof of whatever point he was trying to make.
Jay.