----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert" rkscience100@yahoo.com To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 6:23 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Please stop the censorship.
The result is the same. They are deleting most of the _content_ of the article, resulting in the same censorship that a small but growing consensus here has condemned.
I didn't see any consensus, and calling those edits censorship is unfair. Reading the [[Palestinian views of the peace process]], I feel this article is more or less a trial, with the sum of all proofs, with a public prosecutor and so on. The intent of this trial is to prove that some Palestinian officials are lying. My reaction to this is:
1/ You are trying to prove that 1+1 = 2, all successful politicians are "lying" this way, Bush and Chirac are equals in the sport, nothing new under the sun.
2/ Such a mundane trial has no place in an encyclopedia, but we may disagree on what is encyclopedic.
3/ If this article really has a place in Wikipedia, it should by written mainly by Palestinians, with a little paragraph stating that some of them may say something in English and something else in Arabic.
4/ If the complete trial has a place in Wikipedia, what I doubt, it should be balanced with a similar trial on Israelis point of view about Peace.
About "consensus", what I did see here, is a consensus of people regreting the departure of Danny.
And do call me "leftist", I am not. In Europe, you may find many people from the right wing (what I am not either) that /you/ would call "pro-palestinian". Things are not black and white.