On 30/07/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I say indef block any IP's originating from the institution in question. A stated goal of trying to influence Wikipedia in a POV way would get any individual anon blocked, so why not a pseudo-governmental organization?
Technically, their stated goal is to present Israel fairly and accurately (ie. NPOV). Their blatant COI means they are unlikely to do that very well, but they aren't openly intending to introduce a POV.
In practice, advocacy groups are not really that much of a problem. We get this sort of thing *all the time*. What usually happens is that blind POV pushers make themselves known quite quickly and aren't very effective, and we accumulate new editors who understand what Wikipedia is about and who realise the very best thing to do is to write something NPOV.
Even on the Israel-Palestine articles, we have a core of sensible Wikipedians who may strongly disagree on the issue, but have a clue how to present it.
- d.