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

Wed Sep 1 18:46:18 UTC 2004

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:00:16 -0600, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> 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.

If we start including previous names, we'll start having the same
headaches we have in those Eastern Europe articles.  There should be
some kind of standard for deciding those issues, and probably is, but
we don't need another set of authors failing to follow it.

Nathan