[WikiEN-l] Re: Bot for generating articles on cities in Israel

[cprompt]

On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 14:32, Adam Raizen wrote:

> I really find it incredible that you're objecting. A lot of things have 
> been said against the government of Israel, but I haven't heard anyone 
> questioning the statistics it gathers for its own bureaucratic purposes 
> on its own citizens (these data do not include any information on 
> Palestinians in the territories). How might the statistics be biased 
> exactly? Too many or too few Jews? Too large a population, or too small? 
> What would be the purpose of that? (Don't answer, it's a rhetorical 
> question. I'm not going to debate this.)
> 

As long as you cite the source, I have no objections. I don't think
there's anything wrong with citing statistics collected by a government.
Our citation of the comparable U.S. sources hasn't drawn this much fire.