[WikiEN-l] Effective bullying strategy. (RK)

Fri Jan 9 20:33:51 UTC 2004

Fred Bauder wrote:
>I believe RK's material could and should probably be 
>presented in several paragraphs. What he has done 
>is a piece of original historical research, which by 
>citing particular statements made by Palestinians 
>builds a strong case that at least some Palestinian 
>leaders are insincere.  

Well the allegation that Palestinian leaders often say one thing in English to 
westerners and say another thing in Arabic to the Islamic world is not what I 
would call new work. 

But the long passage would definitely be improved by a great deal of 
condensation at the very least. My first impression upon reading it was that 
for the length of text it actually said very little. But I'm not prepared to 
get into an edit war with RK over it - he seems to find it difficult to take 
critical comments about his work. 

I'm sure I'm not the only person who avoids editing these kind of articles 
because of RK. Wrong or not on this particular issue, Danny was one of the 
few people who would not back down to RK's bullying (yes, IMO, what RK does 
when he does not get his way is bullying). 

Sadly it now seems that Jimbo's declarative and  unmitigated comments have 
resulted in Danny leaving the project. Jimbo should realize the great weight 
his comments have and mix criticism with some sort of mitigating/less sharp  
comments. 

I don't think that Danny's absence serves the big picture goal of having NPOV 
over many Middle-east subjects. 

I am very sad to see him leave. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)