From: slimvirgin@gmail.com
I feel Bjorn did not come to the mailing list with entirely clean hands in this matter. He has previously used quite questionable sources for other edits himself; he accused Bard, based on nothing solid, of not even having read the UN progress report; and he implied that Bard had been evasive when, in fact, Bard had simply not answered Bjorn's second e-mail. Bjorn also did not tell Bard the information was for Wikipedia, which I feel he should have done. Also, once Zero had obtained the report and suggested a way to word the reference to make it accurate, and Tony had edited that onto the page, Bjorn decided to create an entirely new category, and moved the information out of the UN section and into a new section called "Incomplete estimates" (even though Tony's edit made it clear the estimate was incomplete, and the words "progress report" imply that anyway.) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Estimates_of_the_Palestinian_Refug...
This begins to look like POV pushing and not just careful scrutiny of source material.
Indeed it does. At the same time Bjorn was criticizing this cite, and basically accusing it of being false, he (in another article) had no problem whatsoever using this reference to a *blog* http://misnomer.dru.ca/2003/02/11/a_coalition_of_the_willing.html (i.e. a dubious, tertiary source) as proof of whatever point he was trying to make.
Jay.