[WikiEN-l] Nazi userboxes

Sun Dec 3 19:43:00 UTC 2006

On 12/3/06, Rob <gamaliel8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/2/06, Rob Smith <nobs03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 12/1/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >The day a kind, thoughtful, productive and intellectual person shows up
> > >to help us with the encyclopedia project while simultaneously asserting
> > >with all seriousness that the Nazi party of Germany was or is worthy of
> > >support, we'll have a hell of an interesting case on our hands.  But
> the
> > >reality is, that hasn't happened and seems very unlikely to ever
> happen.
> > >
> > >--Jimbo
> > >
> > Yes we have the example of Dr. Christina Jeffrey whom the ADL
> > vindicated with the words, "any characterization of you as
> > anti-Semitic or sympathetic to Nazism is unfair and unfounded".
> >
> > http://www.ngcsu.edu/bdf/bfried/cjeff.htm
> >
> > http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n9_v47/ai_16920435
> >
> > yet it makes up almost entirely the article
> >
> >
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historian_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives
> >
> > and is probably not adaquately covered there; pity the poor editor who
> > dares to undertake such a task.
>
> I doubt Dr. Jeffries is an example of someone who thinks Nazi Germany
> "was or is worthy of support", probably just someone who advocated
> examining history from different perspectives but who chose her words
> very poorly.
>
> Why not simply add the ADL information to the article instead of
> complaining about it here?  I know that had I been aware of that
> information I certainly would have added it to the article when I
> wrote it, so you can't claim you would have faced resistance inserting
> this.

The Epopt did that already.  The point being, even when a non-Nazi, non
Anti-Semitic scholar of good will states, ""The Nazi point of view, however
unpopular, is still a point of view"
they are permantly defamed by such authoritive sources as sitting members of
Congress.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-16920435.html

Nobs01