[WikiEN-l] Current Events July 23rd 2004. Zero0000 abusing admin privs

Tue Jul 27 13:27:45 UTC 2004

Hi, I'm new to this list and I'm new to the NPOV policy but it seems  
very obvious to me Harry that your version is not NPOV. The term  
"terrorist" is hardly neutral. It's about as loaded as  
"freedom-fighter."

"Gunmen," it seems to me, is a relatively neutral term that cannot be  
disputed.

Christiaan

On 27 Jul 2004, at 1:46 pm, Harry Smith wrote:

>
> I need your help.  Zero0000 is insisting upon a
> verison of events that is based upon a single report
> in AFP. The BBC, NYT, HaAretz, INN all disagree with
> Zero0000's version.  This is detailed in a table on
> [[Talk:Current Events]].  Zero0000 is also
> insisting, that a different article in HaAretz is a
> retraction of an earlier one...there is  no indication
> of such in the article itself. While that article
> details other deaths in this horrible conflict,
> nowhere does it discuss the incident of Hassan Zaanin.
>
> Zero0000's version:
> * An 18-year-old [[Palestinian]], Hassan Zaanin, is
> shot dead in Beit Hanoun in the [[Gaza Strip]] when
> heand his familiy attempt to stop Palestinian gunmen
> from planting an anti-tank explosive outside their
> house.[http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/455715.html
> (Haaretz)]
> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3920181.stm
>  (BBC)]
>
> My version:
> * [[Palestinian terrorism|Palestinian terrorist]]s
> of the [[Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades]] an armed branch
> of
> [[Yasser Arafat]]'s [[Fatah]] organization,
> [[murder]] 16-year-old [[Palestinian]] Hassan
> Al-Za'nin and shoot several members of his family,
> when the family refuses to allow the terrorists to use
> the Al-Za'nin property as a [[Qassam rocket]] launch
> site.
> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3920181.stm
> (BBC)]
> [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/23/international/middleeast/23CND- 
> MIDE.html?hp
> (NYT)]
> [http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=66197 (INN)]
> [http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/455377.html
> (HaAretz)]
>
> To prevent me from insisting that the more common
> version be used, he is blocking IP addresses that I
> use.  Please help in preventing Zero0000 from doing
> this.
>
> Sincerely,
> Lance6Wins