[WikiEN-l] False cries of censorship in State of Israel article

Tue Aug 5 01:07:02 UTC 2003

For reasons I do not understand, Jtdirl is being dishonest
about my work on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a good article on
the State of Israel, which has links to many different
sub-topics. However, in recent days a few people have been
trying to start, from scratch, argumentative discussions
about Jewish refugees and Arab refugees within this main
page.  You need to kno that these subjects ALREADY are
discussed in great detail in many other article! The edit
page shows this is already becoming very contentious.

The problem here is that people, such as Jtdirl, are
effectively bypassing our peer review by starting a totally
new discussion on the same topic, without taking into
account the consensus that has already been built. It also
has become inflammatory, with many other people adding text
and deleting text.

Jtdirl's edits, and edits of a few others here, are a
violation of the protocol that we use for all our other
nation/state entries.

Bizarrely, Jtdirl refuses to recognize that Wikipedia
*already* discusses this issue, in depth. When I removed
this inflammatory section, and referred him to the fact
that we *already* have these articles, which have gone
through many rounds of peer review, Jtdirl yelled at me:

"rv yet more RK censorship. Does he ever stop? Does he have
a clue what NPOV means?"

This is a lie. I have never censored this, and in fact I
have worked with many others here in many rounds of
peer-review to hone our articles on precisely these topics.
Here are our articles which ALREADY discuss these topics:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_refugee
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_refugees

I am sincerely distressed by the way Jtdirl keeps accusing
me of censorship. I have never promoted censorship of
academic discouse, nor have I ever prevented anyone from
writing on this issue. That's just crazy. I just want to
maintain standard Wikipedia protocols. Jtdirl, please stop
the false accusations, and stop your reversions. Your POV
pushing is not acceptable; instead, please work with the
rest of us in the peer-reviewed articles which already are
gaining some measure of consensus.

RK

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