On 6/22/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
I believe this is basic bonehead-level NPOV people, and it should be a good lesson to resolve it. As interesting as it is to organize people by their faulty views, doing so in this manner only reveals our own faulty adherence to the holy prime directive. And if youre one of those people who has to ask what that is...
It's a dodgy category bound to offend people. And is it helpful? Are people likely to browse this category for some research purpose? I feel that lists like "People that Israel has accused of anti-semitism" would be more useful in that regard. Allowing such broad interpretations of "anti-semite" or even "accused of anti-semitism" is unlikely to be NPOV.
In any case, most of these religion or ethnicity-related categories are pretty dodgy. I'd like to hear any suggestions anyone has for dealing with them, and in particular, want to hear what the main arguments for keeping them are. Ie: what is useful about "Category:Jewish Americans".
Steve