On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/5/8 stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
--
Sam
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