[WikiEN-l] Re: Martin Harper is again censoring Wikipedia

[Anthere]

Robert,

Without any wish to imply any more than just my plain words, I 
appreciated your email general civil tone.

hope I am clear here :-(

We are currently trying to decide who could help you both.

Robert a écrit:
> Martin Harper (MyRedDice) is again censoring the article,
> "Palestinian views of the peace process". Instead of
> deleting the entire article, Martin Harper has deleted most
> of the (verfied) facts and quotes, leaving a skeleton
> article with vietually no content!
> 
> This specific problem was already discussed in detail a few
> weeks ago. It was decided that when Danny mass deleted this
> vast amount of information, it amounted to vandalism, or
> censorship. It was decided that when Zero did the same
> thing, this too was censorship.
> 
> Jimbo, some anonymous folk, and myself made many arguments
> on simple points: One may not delete verified historical
> facts and quotes simply because it makes them
> uncomfortable. You cannot push your political agenda by
> deletin facts that are inconvenient.
> 
> Please re-read Jimbo's many posts on this issue. We cannot
> have any kind of encyclopedia at all if we mass delete huge
> amounts of facts and quotes to push political agendas.
> 
> Jimbo was very clear that the problem was not one of NPOV,
> but one of people trying to avoid discussion of certain
> points altogether. Instead of improving an article, people
> were trying to make it disappear. That is uncalled for.
> 
> I am trying to mitigate the damage caused by Martin, but he
> is really making a one person censorship campaign his full
> time job. I am requesting mediation. However, we require
> mediators who are _not_ avowedly anti-Israel and
> pro-Arafat, because that is precisely the problem.
> 
> We should be discussing _how_ to present facts, not _if_ we
> should present them!  For shame.
> 
> Robert (RK)
> 
> 
> 
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