[WikiEN-l] Articles like "Violence against Israelis"

Mon Aug 30 15:00:16 UTC 2004

I don't have a problem with POV, but I do with detailed listings of each
incident and casualty. There is violence against Israelis. An encyclopedia
article would present the statistics, perhaps several examples, but not
extensive lists. Corresponding lists of Palestinian grievances are also
inappropriate, although I do think articles about Israeli locations should
include information regarding previous names of the place.

Fred

> From: zero 0000 <nought_0000 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:14:05 -0700 (PDT)
> To: wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Articles like "Violence against Israelis"
> 
> 
> The problem with articles like "Violence against Israelis" is not so
> much that the material they contain is false, but that the topic of
> the articles is unfixably POV.  People like Lance6Wins and
> MathKnight who devote many hours to maintaining these lists
> do not do it out of a desire to make Wikipedia a fine encyclopedia.
> They are on a political mission, and do not consider that the NPOV
> rule is relevant to them.
> 
> If these people were well-motivated, they would also be including
> violence against Palestinians as well.  Try to find the following in
> Wikipedia, for example (I went to the web site of the Israeli
> human-rights organization B'Tselem and entered a random month):
> 
> 8 February 2003
> Mustafa Ibrahim Abu 'Adwan, age 10, died of wounds inflicted by IDF
> gunfire in Khan Younis, in the south of The Gaza Strip, on 7 February,
> 2003. Did not participate in fighting
> 
> 11 February 2003
> Hassan al-Ghoul, age 8, from Qalqiliya, killed by IDF gunfire shot in
> response to stones and molotov cocktails thrown at soldiers, in
> Qalqiliya, 
> The West Bank. Did not participate in fighting
> 
> And so on for a total of 11 children killed by Israeli forces in April
> 2003.
> The list of adults killed, including both combatants and
> non-combatants,
> is much longer.  April 2003 was not an unusual month.
> 
> The reason these are not listed in Wikipedia is that there is nobody
> with
> the dedication and time to match the efforts of Lance6Wins and
> MathKnight.
> (Actually, such a person or persons would need several times as much
> dedication because several times as many Palestinians are killed as
> Israelis.)
> Would we want such a competition between lists anyway?  From experience
> we know that articles like this cannot be deleted.  My preferred
> solution
> would be to kick out the political fanatics, and good riddance, but it
> won't
> happen.  The problem in fact will not be solved and this open sore will
> remain.  Sorry to bring bad news.
> 
> Zero.
> 
> 
> 
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