This is very true! Maybe the fact that there ARE two sides to the story,
neither completely right or wrong, is the point ?
It is admittedly very difficult to write a completely unbiased paragraph about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the initial article-- [sorry, I'm not up to snuff on semantics here with wikipedia]-- reached by an outsider doing a casual search could be a statement that the conflict exists between whom, where, when...etc. ...and certain factual info re treaties, etc. then a link to the individual sides' position?
Pat
We're trying. It's very difficult, because each side insists that their version is unbiased, and there's little agreement even on the facts, let alone the meanings.
But since this is an encyclopedia I would expect to find an unbiased account of the background of the Palestinian/Israeli situation--"encyclopedia" suggests definition...if I want opinions I will turn to monographs or other sources clearly identifiable as opinion.
-- Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org http://www.redbird.org
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:11:46AM -0400, Padreger@aol.com wrote:
This is very true! Maybe the fact that there ARE two sides to the story,
neither completely right or wrong, is the point ?
It is admittedly very difficult to write a completely unbiased paragraph about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the initial article-- [sorry, I'm not up to snuff on semantics here with wikipedia]-- reached by an outsider doing a casual search could be a statement that the conflict exists between whom, where, when...etc. ...and certain factual info re treaties, etc. then a link to the individual sides' position?
I think the problem with the idea of a page for each position is that it will inevitably lead people into thinking they have a free rein to ignore NPOV, simply because the one page is "balanced" by the other - most likely ending up in a spiral of increasing bias. (Well, the other page says this horribly biased thing, I'm justified in saying something non-neutral on this page).
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