[WikiEN-l] Nationalist POV-pushing on Wikpedia: what to do?

Roozbeh Pournader roozbeh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 22:47:42 UTC 2004


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:54:21 -0700, Poor, Edmund W <edmund.w.poor at abc.com> wrote:
> The only thing we can do about it is what we've always done about it,
> and it's the best solution anyway:
> 
> DESCRIBE EACH SIDE'S POV
> 
> Say that according to _this_ group of nationalists, the situation is
> like this. Then say that according to _that_ group of nationalists, the
> situation is like that.

Already done. Won't work. They go and remove the other side's POVs, or
revert to the not-yet-NPOV-ed version.

See some of the articles' histories and you'll get what I mean. One
example is [[Azerbaijanis]]
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Azerbaijanis&action=history).
Look at what 198.81.26.80 is doing.

roozbeh



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