There has certainly been many brief, and not so brief blocks, passed out. I see my old friend Zeq in there (He once provoked me into admitting I'm a Zionist). I don't think there is a solution, really other than to keep monitoring editors and dealing with the most egregious offenders. I have always been suspicious of government involvement, as I am of the Chinese government, but never have seen an obvious instance. There does seem to be some advocacy recently for propaganda campaigns coordinated by the Israeli government:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/israeli-propaganda-is-both-int...
Fred Bauder
There was the I/P ArbCom decision here < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Palestine-Is... that implemented a host of discretionary sanctions.
My personal opinion is that there has been concerted and conspiratorial editing on both sides, with the Israeli side being more openly "accused" until recently.
I do not have any good solutions; however, as someone who has edited in the field, I do feel that there are political blocks that position themselves to push points of view. I openly admit to having a particular point of view, although I do my best to edit neutrally. I feel that there are many editors who do not do there best to edit neutrally, from all perspectives, and I am certain others would say that about me.
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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.netwrote:
Avi,
Could you point us to the proposed arbitration decision and comment on that? My thought, made without spending the mandatory 10 or 20 hours actually necessary to get up to speed on the current situation is that while in the past the Zionist viewpoint has generally prevailed, opposing viewpoints are starting to be expressed more thoroughly, which is exactly what is contemplated under the NPOV policy.
You're probably much more informed than many of us.
Fred Bauder
Thoughts?
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Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
There does seem to be some advocacy recently for propaganda campaigns coordinated by the Israeli government:
Well yeah, we've seen some of that. In the context of whats ultimately a very humanistic project, the open editing model as made it difficult for some people to edit from any particular point of view wherein the issues of human rights violations are fairly plain, and the justifications are rationalistic or culturalistic.
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