[Foundation-l] Israel article (was: Quran in Sitenotice)

Thu Jul 13 20:55:06 UTC 2006

Hi all.

(I apologise this won't show up in threading - I've only just
subscribed and I'm reading old mesages through the archives)

Heema Khan:

> On Urdu Wikipedia, article on Israel is very short:
> http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%84
> I can translate it:
> "Israel, a palce where jews live. In addition to Pakistan there are many other
> countries that do not recognize this place of Jews as a country.
> Majority of the Urdu speaking public believes that there
> is no country by the name of Israel exists. But there is
> a country named Palestine, whose some part is captured
> by Jews and they call it Israel. And the English speaking
> world says that in a country called Israel some
> Palestenians want to create a country called Palestine."
>
> This is the whole article. Quite extraordinary, nothing to add more.

In this specific case, if my reading of the page is right, this
article has had a grand total of 21 edits, the ten most recent of them
in a single three-day period in June. Every single bit of the content
has been contributed by one single registered user; all anon edits
have been vandalism (well, one was pageblanking, that might count as
justified!) No discussion page, of course.

On the whole, while it's still a pretty terrible article, it scares me
less once I know that it's the work of one guy and it's just that
no-one sane has managed to look at it yet...

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