My take on it right now is that lance6wins edits from what can be generally termed a partisan viewpoint. It is difficult to adequately characterize his viewpoint in simple terms, for example I don't think he is a settler, although he may be. Lance6win's perspective is similar to that of [[Daniel Pipes]], a relatively well know commentator. I think that perspective is significant and ought to be included in articles relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but ought to be identified either by reference to the perspective taken or the source of the material, in the case of the radio station its perspective is well known to Israelis but can be difficult to characterize to those unfamiliar with such nuances. At any rate identifying the perspective of material added to an article is the responsibility of the person who adds it. Simply taking that perspective and inserting it into the article as the truth is not acceptable; it needs to be attributed in some way which identifies it.
Fred
From: Phil Sandifer sandifer@sbcglobal.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:46 -0500 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] pirate radio station as source (was: Zero0000 has blocked Lance6Wins)
True, but that's a different argument than the pirate radio station. I mean, the warrant for inclusion, in that case, is not that it is said by a pirate radio station, but that it is a belief of right-wing Israeli settlers. And thus the information should be introduced in those terms, instead of in terms of a pirate radio station.
-Snowspinner
On Sep 22, 2004, at 6:49 PM, Delirium wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote:
I don't think the small but hardcore following necessarily makes their views encyclopedic - consider the case of Lyndon LaRouche, which the arbcom has ruled ought not be mentioned in articles that do not directly pertain to LaRouche. So I would still lean towards this not being encyclopedic.
In this case, I don't think it's directly analogous. The views of the right-wing Israeli settlers are pretty relevant to the issue of Israeli-Palestinian relations...
-Mark
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