--- Tucci tucci528@yahoo.com wrote:
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
I think it's ridiculous too. It seems like Stevertigo is the only person who opposes the statistics. I am attempting to move the discussion to [[m:Israeli statistics]]. LDan
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