From: "Sascha Noyes" sascha@pantropy.net
On Sunday 01 February 2004 01:33 pm, Anthere wrote:
Could someone have a look at the conflict over Alexander Lukashenko, between Adam Carr and 172. And give their opinion ? I hardly dare to say it, but I reverted to a version that is anterior to december 2003, to insure it was "somehow" stable.
Does it matter _that much_ which version a page is protected on? I'd argue that it matters less than breaking rule # 2 of the page protection policy.
I tend to agree with Sascha Ant, the reality is that there is a lot of propaganda about Lukashenko floating around. He is a dictator, he did expell OSCE representatives but there are a lot of people in Belarus and elsewhere who might agree with other versions of "reality" and see him as a mostly benevolent force. To write a really good article about this guy requires a lot of reserach and most of the versions of the article that I have seen are pretty poor. Better to leave the old version for now and deal with the disputes as it will likely take a while to resolve the issues between these contributors and separate fact from fiction and propaganda which is coming from several different sources.
Alex756