Dear All,
I would like to bring this scholarly article to your urgent attention: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939) Even though it's title is somewhat suspicious it describes a very specific problem on English Wikipedia which is tragic and unacceptable. I'm happy to help any way I can to solve this but I hope that admins will act on this as soon as possible.
Best wishes, Adam
Piotrus and Volunteer Marek, among others, are Wikipedians mentioned in the above article. I contacted those two individuals because I felt it was fair for them to be aware that people were discussing them in an off wiki venue. Anyways, Piotrus said that I could share their response: Thank you for the information, but I am unsure how to find that particular discussion. I am aware of the general context (the article), which is being discussed in some places on Wikipedia. My quick comment on it is that this article contains numerous errors and inaccuracies (mixed with an occasional fair point or critique, nothing is white and black), and seems significantly based on data provided to the researches by a very tainted source, i.e. globally banned user Icewhiz, who was first topic banned the Polish-Jewish topic area by ArbCom, then site banned from Wikimedia Projects for harassment of myself, Volunteer Marek and others. You are welcome to post my above message there through a direct quote.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:38 p.m. adamhrngzo@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to bring this scholarly article to your urgent attention: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939) Even though it's title is somewhat suspicious it describes a very specific problem on English Wikipedia which is tragic and unacceptable. I'm happy to help any way I can to solve this but I hope that admins will act on this as soon as possible.
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I can't be surprised that much, after seeing the same distortion happening where the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/tutsigenocide#:~:text=On%207%20April%2C%20UNESCO%20commemorates,the%20Hutu%20extremist%2Dled%20government. is termed as the Rwandan genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide, a statement used by deniers.
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 03:36, Clover Moss clovermosswikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Piotrus and Volunteer Marek, among others, are Wikipedians mentioned in the above article. I contacted those two individuals because I felt it was fair for them to be aware that people were discussing them in an off wiki venue. Anyways, Piotrus said that I could share their response: Thank you for the information, but I am unsure how to find that particular discussion. I am aware of the general context (the article), which is being discussed in some places on Wikipedia. My quick comment on it is that this article contains numerous errors and inaccuracies (mixed with an occasional fair point or critique, nothing is white and black), and seems significantly based on data provided to the researches by a very tainted source, i.e. globally banned user Icewhiz, who was first topic banned the Polish-Jewish topic area by ArbCom, then site banned from Wikimedia Projects for harassment of myself, Volunteer Marek and others. You are welcome to post my above message there through a direct quote.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:38 p.m. adamhrngzo@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to bring this scholarly article to your urgent attention: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939) Even though it's title is somewhat suspicious it describes a very specific problem on English Wikipedia which is tragic and unacceptable. I'm happy to help any way I can to solve this but I hope that admins will act on this as soon as possible.
Best wishes, Adam _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/... To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave@lists.wikimedia.org
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Anyways, ArbCom has opened (reopened?) the Holocaust in Poland case, likely due to this journal article.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 6:10 a.m. Ndahiro Derrick Alter < ndahiroderric@gmail.com> wrote:
I can't be surprised that much, after seeing the same distortion happening where the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/tutsigenocide#:~:text=On%207%20April%2C%20UNESCO%20commemorates,the%20Hutu%20extremist%2Dled%20government. is termed as the Rwandan genocide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide, a statement used by deniers.
On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 03:36, Clover Moss clovermosswikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Piotrus and Volunteer Marek, among others, are Wikipedians mentioned in the above article. I contacted those two individuals because I felt it was fair for them to be aware that people were discussing them in an off wiki venue. Anyways, Piotrus said that I could share their response: Thank you for the information, but I am unsure how to find that particular discussion. I am aware of the general context (the article), which is being discussed in some places on Wikipedia. My quick comment on it is that this article contains numerous errors and inaccuracies (mixed with an occasional fair point or critique, nothing is white and black), and seems significantly based on data provided to the researches by a very tainted source, i.e. globally banned user Icewhiz, who was first topic banned the Polish-Jewish topic area by ArbCom, then site banned from Wikimedia Projects for harassment of myself, Volunteer Marek and others. You are welcome to post my above message there through a direct quote.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:38 p.m. adamhrngzo@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to bring this scholarly article to your urgent attention: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939) Even though it's title is somewhat suspicious it describes a very specific problem on English Wikipedia which is tragic and unacceptable. I'm happy to help any way I can to solve this but I hope that admins will act on this as soon as possible.
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