-----Original Message----- From: John Kavalos [mailto:johnkavalos@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 04:49 AM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] From Romanian Wikipedia, the Nazi Encyclopedia
There are some serious issues on Romanian Wikipedia, where a few Nazis have been taking over lots of articles, while the admins are supporting and defending them.
I tried arguing, but it's useless with such a horde of freaks.
The issue is spread on dozens of articles and I choose for example, one of them, the article on Zionism:
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sionism
The article on Zionism is completely written from an anti-semitic POV, and it even has a section of comparison between Zionism and Fascism, one about propaganda in the "corporatist press" and one about "ethnic purification".
Here are some excerpts:
"Zionism is not Judaism, not Semitism (sic!), but a racist ideology which glorifies violence, just like Fascism"
"the Jewish Romanians of Bessarabia betrayed the interests of their country"
"later, Zionism got a fascist "colour". Vladimir Jabotinsky is an ideologue of terrorism, while the first modern terrorist state, Bolshevik Russia..."
"when their leave was refused, the same Bolshevik-Zionist-anti-nationals become refuseniks, then neo-conservatives by leaving directly to America, where they promote Zionist wars."
There's absolutely nothing that can be kept from that article. Everything is just the lowest kind of anti-semitic propaganda.
So I tried to revert to an older explaining that it's written from a neo-nazi POV. I got a warning for that, it was reverted and protected.
I don't want to waste my time negotiating with Nazis. Any solution, apart from stopping editing Romanian Wikipedia?
The solution is broader participation by Romanian speakers. So don't give up and don't engage in a meltdown on the site. Continue to advance alternate versions of the disputed articles, but don't overdo it.
The Foundation may chose to intervene, as I doubt this is an isolated problem.
Fred