An edit war seems to have broken out on the 'East Timor' page earlier today. 209.226.107.51 has twice added a line about the US selling weapons to Indonesia during the conflict in East Timor, which Zoe has deleted twice. Maybe someone could look into this case before it leads to a real edit war or someone is leaving the project in disgust.
Andre Engels
At 09:46 AM 9/3/02 +0200, you wrote:
An edit war seems to have broken out on the 'East Timor' page earlier today. 209.226.107.51 has twice added a line about the US selling weapons to Indonesia during the conflict in East Timor, which Zoe has deleted twice. Maybe someone could look into this case before it leads to a real edit war or someone is leaving the project in disgust.
Andre Engels
Zoe is correct. Hard to prove a negative, but the addition is a violation of neutral point of view as relating to the US as it implies that the US is somehow responsible for what happened in East Timor just by selling weapons to Indonesia. The information, if true needs to be in some article on arms sales or something else not in the East Timor article. It is that which needs to be explained to 209..... Fred
Andre Engels wrote:
An edit war seems to have broken out on the 'East Timor' page earlier today. 209.226.107.51 has twice added a line about the US selling weapons to Indonesia during the conflict in East Timor, which Zoe has deleted twice. Maybe someone could look into this case before it leads to a real edit war or someone is leaving the project in disgust.
Andre Engels
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making comments about the effects of the arms trade on the history of this crisis. Zoe's deletion was nothing more than that without even an explanation on the talk page. Her summary comments did mention a lack of substantiation, so I've added a few references on the talk page, as well as a revised paragraph on the subject in the article.
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