On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/8 stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com:
Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and the other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how does it help our discussion to to say either of these things?
The trouble with ethnic conflict articles is that, rather than a few problem editors, there's an effectively infinite stream of partisans. (For whatever reason: local education is often partisan rather than NPOV?) So, even though a core of opinionated-though-neutral editors accumulates, there's an eternal stream of people who don't know and don't care about NPOV or Wikipedia principles in general - as far as they're concerned, someone is being WRONG on the Internet.
Indeed. The solution to Israel-Palestine disputes on Wikipedia is that there be some lasting resolution to the meatspace Israel-Palestine conflict. Sadly, I think that is beyond the capabilities of even our esteemed Arbitration Committee.