Someone posted these anonymously on my User_talk page. I thought that they were of sufficient interest to post to the mailing list.
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Anti-Semitism&diff=1104...
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Jew&diff=1104783&ol...
RK, you're a longtime contributor, highly valued, but I'd like to ask you to tone it down a notch. Referring to the contributions of others as "Neo-Nazi-like revisionism" is not kind, and it causes people to get very upset, and with good reason I think.
On the second link you wrote "You don't understand Wikipedia's NPOV policy at all. It does ''not'' mean that everyone must agree with the text." I'm not sure what you meant by that, but I would say that NPOV does require us to write the text in such a way that all reasonable people can agree to it.
So, yeah, it's basically impossible to appeace every lunatic on the face of the earth, but we do strive to write in such a fashion that the only remaining objections _are_ lunatic.
Which means something very close to 'everyone must agree with the text'. (Certainly, your interlocutors in these debates are not lunatic, although they may very well be wrong on a number of things.)
I do understand that anti-Semitism and Judiasm are intensely emotional issues for many, nearly as controversial as bird naming conventions. (Ha, ha, a little levity in a serious post, sorry.)
This means that on these topics, more than any others, we need to be ready to work with kindness and to minimize combativeness.
Since this post is critical of RK, let me say this: I am only criticizing his _style_, and on all of the _content_ issues that I have looked at (a very small number compared to all that has been written), I tend to agree with him completely, and I do share his concerns about anti-Semitism slipping quietly into our articles.
--Jimbo