Reddi had added many links to [[Current events]]. Most are OK but s/he has a
habit of adding highly questionable stuff -
i. adding in lines in the page that are generally seen as totally irrelevant
and completely Americocentrist, eg announcing the launch of US TV show
premieres and re-runs as if they were of internationally newsworthy, or
could remotely fall within the ambit of current affairs, eg.,
* [[Entertainment]] : "The Partridge Family" to take the psychedelic bus
for another spin, returning to television in an updated remake, according to
The Hollywood Reporter. [22]
* [[Entertainment]]: The "Star Wars: Clone Wars" episodes premieres. A new
episode of the Lucas-approved series airs each weeknight, repeating at
midnight. Another 10 will air next spring. [4] [5]
* [[Movies]]: Russell Crowe attended the London premiere of his movie Master
and Commander. [2]
** [[Nudity]]: Porn publisher Larry Flynt states he bought reported nude
photos of Iraq war heroine Jessica Lynch - to keep them from ever being
published. Jessica Lynch is frolicking topless with male soldiers in the
photos before she went off to war. [10] [11] [12]
ii. using highly POV language, eg.,
* [[Mass media]]: An example of European media coverage distorting the
Mideast conflict is publicized. [47]
* [[United Nations]]: The UN votes again and overwhelmingly for an end to
sanctions against Cuba; only the USA, Israel, and the Marshall Islands vote
against. [12] The US's United Nations ambassador John Negroponte avoided the
UN propaganda forum.
iii. uses as /single/ sources references that are not highly regarded as
NPOV, for example editorials and commentary columns and controversial
sources such as FOX News.
iv. Adding in names of countries, definitions and links at the start of
sentences that are at this stage OTT and in most cases wrongly defined
([[Scotland]], [[Nudity]], [[Entertainment]], etc, as if the page was a
tabloid TV news channel. Mav among others have constantly had to revert
these, for example:
# (cur) (last) . . M 20:39, 16 Nov 2003 . . Maveric149 (removed bastard
contextualizations; place is not context! Nor is subject! )
# (cur) (last) . . 01:27, 14 Nov 2003 . . Snoyes (removing POV on news
article (no place for debating on this page - it is meant to be short and to
the point - see talk))
# (cur) (last) . . 23:26, 13 Nov 2003 . . Snoyes (add link to judge-story;
rm official statement from other news story (official statements are
frequently useless, as they mostly don't add anything))
# (cur) (last) . . M 03:22, 12 Nov 2003 . . Jiang (rm pointless
contextualizations)
Snoyes wrote - Regarding my removal of, as you (user:Reddi) put it, the
"pentagon view": The Current Events page should not be some kind of forum
for posting points of view on News articles. It is about the News itself. I
don't think that it is a good idea to post responses by involved parties if
they don't contain significant relevant information that has not already
been said. . . If this continues we'll be writing entire news stories
pretty soon. Which I don't think Current Events is designed to do. --snoyes
01:28, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Jiang, Snoyes, Mav, Viajero and others have complained repeatedly about some
of these additions. I raised the point of the nonsensical listing of a
cartoon series. Reddi's response was to write a weird largely unreadable
reply which he signed "Not an irish drunk", an offensive characture link
mocking my Irishness which, if it was made against someone because of their
gender, race or jewish identity would rightly be criticised.
It is not the only place on wikipedia that Reddi has acted in a POV manner,
but while thankfully s/he doesn't engage in edit wars, they keep adding in
links, adding in categories at the start of lines, creating ever growing
right wing Americocentrist lines and using controversial sources as single
sources, rather than, as requested, offer other sources alongside with their
beloved FOX News and the Washington Times. And so far appeals from everyone
else to stop fall on deaf ears. Have people any suggestions, before what is
right now just a constant irritant on the Current events page requiring
frequent culling of irrelevant stuff, as so happens grows into something
worse and provokes major rows on the page?
JT
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