[WikiEN-l] Re: Bot for generating articles on cities in Israel

Fri Sep 19 00:27:57 UTC 2003

--- Tucci <tucci528 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This discussion is kinda ridiculous.  I haven't read
> any of it until just now, when I read (or
> skimmed...)
> all of the Israeli bot articles in sequence.  One
> person is arguing that the Israeli government's
> statistics are too POV to include in the Wikipedia? 
> Why?  It would be absolutely wonderful if there was
> some totally neutral organization out there that
> collected statistics on everything from how many
> Mozambiquean-Israeli-Christians there are in Tel
> Aviv
> to how many left-handed red-headed
> Norwegian-American
> biologists believe in creationism, but no such
> organization exists.  Luckily, we have adopted the
> NPOV policy, which does not require such an
> organization.  It only requires that potentially
> sensitive facts be attributed to the proper
> organization.  In this case, that organization
> appears
> to be the Israeli census bureau.  Hence, these
> potentially disputable statistics should be
> attributed
> to the organization that collected them.
> 
> We're not talking about my brother's D+D group; the
> Israeli government is an organization with a lot of
> supporters, at home and abroad, who believe their
> numbers.  It would be POV to not include them.
> 
> Just to let my own biases be known, I think all the
> Israelis and Palestinians should be sent to some
> useless corner of Mars where they can kill each
> other
> in peace (ironic, huh?), and all their territory
> converted to recycling plants or solar power cells
> or
> desalinization plants or, hell, a giant museum
> dedicated to people who think it's ever holy to kill
> other people (might have to use Syria too, cuz it'd
> be
> big).
> 
> TUF-KAT

I think it's ridiculous too. It seems like Stevertigo
is the only person who opposes the statistics. I am
attempting to move the discussion to [[m:Israeli
statistics]].
LDan

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