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

Thu Jul 13 21:26:59 UTC 2006

On 13/07/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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...
>
> No one sane?

I apologise - I seem to have misread a bit.

Created by original user, in a one-sentence stub, edited by "main
user". Moved by a third user, lots of edits, then the most recent two
are cosmetic (I think) edits by a fourth.

Otherwise, all content - including what appears to be the offending
paragraph - is by our friend the main user. We have one registered
user who's edited the page at all since the POV stuff went in. I
wouldn't be crying "collapse of Urdu wiki" yet.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk