NPOV never covered false statements such as Wheeler made about the Jewish concentration camps of the Gulag. If you think it did you were mistaken. Such a statement would be acceptable only in the context of identifying it as an anti-semitic statement.
I wouldn't have thought so. I'd like to hear RK's opinion on the topic in general before feeling my qualms are addressed. He already considers page protection evidence of anti-Semitism.
Who in the blazes told you that?! I've got news for you: Pages are protected on Wikipedia all the time. I never called suchprotection racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-American, or anything else. What you have beem told about me has been exagerrated to the point of caricature. Why? Because some people want to avoid the issue on the rare articles (out of over 100,000) when they do arise.
If some people added anti-American propaganda and rhetoric to an article, and then protected the page, then that specific set of actions would be anti-American agitation, and it should be condemned as such. Similarly, if some people added anti-Jewish or anti-gay propaganda and rhetoric, and then protected the page, then that specific set of actions would be anti-Semitic or homophobic agitation, and it should be condemned as such. Note that this line of thought has been echoed by others (not just me) and that it bears no resemblance to what you think I believe.
By the way, I have over 300 articles on my "Watchlist", and I have seen many of these articles get protected. I also have seen some rather large flame wars on many of them, most of which I have chosen to ignore. In recent months, how many of times did I see someone do something anti-Jewish within an article? One article...out of *three hundred*. (Wheeler's attacks were in a Talk page.)
Heck, although I look at many of these 300 "Watch" articles, I just took a couple of months off from Wikipedia because (a) I had time-consuimg outside concerns (good things, mostly) and (b) I didn't have the energy or desire to get involved in flame wars. Wikipedia could probably cool down a bit if others took off for a week or a month every now and then. I've done it before, I'll do it again; I can even reccomend it. Heck, people who can't take time off are too tightly wound up in this project (like...Mr Natural Health.)
Robert
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