This discussion is kinda ridiculous. I haven't read
any of it until just now, when I read (or skimmed...)
all of the Israeli bot articles in sequence. One
person is arguing that the Israeli government's
statistics are too POV to include in the Wikipedia?
Why? It would be absolutely wonderful if there was
some totally neutral organization out there that
collected statistics on everything from how many
Mozambiquean-Israeli-Christians there are in Tel Aviv
to how many left-handed red-headed Norwegian-American
biologists believe in creationism, but no such
organization exists. Luckily, we have adopted the
NPOV policy, which does not require such an
organization. It only requires that potentially
sensitive facts be attributed to the proper
organization. In this case, that organization appears
to be the Israeli census bureau. Hence, these
potentially disputable statistics should be attributed
to the organization that collected them.
We're not talking about my brother's D+D group; the
Israeli government is an organization with a lot of
supporters, at home and abroad, who believe their
numbers. It would be POV to not include them.
Just to let my own biases be known, I think all the
Israelis and Palestinians should be sent to some
useless corner of Mars where they can kill each other
in peace (ironic, huh?), and all their territory
converted to recycling plants or solar power cells or
desalinization plants or, hell, a giant museum
dedicated to people who think it's ever holy to kill
other people (might have to use Syria too, cuz it'd be
big).
TUF-KAT
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