[WikiEN-l] Re: articles about Serbian history

[Mirko Thiessen]

Geoff Burling wrote:
>
> Or, to put it another way, is deleting external links that one doesn't
> like similar to deleting material in the Talk: pages one doesn't like?
>


No, deleting external links should be legitimate, if the linked website 
contains propaganda or garbage.

Some editors of the Balkan articles have perfected a way of feignedly 
sticking to NPOV, but effectively breaking it: they write a very short 
article, and then add "Further information can be found here", pointing to 
a biased page. There was even a page (which I currently cannot find 
again), where the external links were spread all over the text; that's 
about how it looked:

"When the Serbian army [1] entered Bosnia [2], resistance was high [3]..."

Every [x] was linking to a one-sided website. We should carefully watch, 
what kind of external links is added to this sort of pages, where a 
violation of NPOV is likely to come.

However, when I find time, I will have a look at all these Serbia pages 
and try to rewrite them, so that we can get rid of these freesrpska.org 
links.


Mirko.