[Wikipedia-l] facts not conjecture

Fri Sep 20 12:29:34 UTC 2002

At 08:19 AM 9/20/02 -0400, Pat wrote:

>But since this is an encyclopedia I would expect to find an unbiased 
>account of the background of the Palestinian/Israeli 
>situation--"encyclopedia" suggests definition...if I want opinions I will 
>turn to monographs or other sources clearly identifiable as opinion.

We're trying. It's very difficult, because each side insists that their 
version is
unbiased, and there's little agreement even on the facts, let alone the 
meanings.

-- 
Vicki Rosenzweig
vr at redbird.org
http://www.redbird.org