On 8/29/05, Boris Lohnzweiger <BorisLohnzweiger(a)web.de> wrote:
At the German WP we have an arbitration committee for
such issues. I don't
know if anything similar exists at en: but if so that would surely be worth a
try.
I am not sure, but it seems to me that arbitration committee on en:
serves to solve conflicts between people, and not about some general
questions like this one.
As far as I'm concerned I think Wikipedia should
not rename ethnic groups at
will. If a people designates itself by a certain name others have to respect
that name and not change it at random. This holds especially true if that
people represents the majority population of a present-day independant
nation.
In this case I am involved only because one of admins from mk: asked
me for help about vote month or two ago. I found new poll
accidentally.
The problem is that I think that it is just one case from the sea of
past and future similar cases. And this is not irrelevant type of
conflict. This is a half step to clear promotion of nazi ideas.
And the main problem is that a lot of people (there) are trying just
to see the problem only in the sense of nationalist "arguments". All
of them sound "rational", "well explained", "look like
NPOV", but this
is violation of primary human rights and violation of UN bill of human
rights. And there should not be any kind of negotiations with that.
So, does English Wikipedian community have any answer about such incidents?