On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/8 stevertigo <[email protected]>: > >> Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and the >> other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how >> does it help our >> discussion to to say either of these things? > > > The trouble with ethnic conflict articles is that, rather than a few > problem editors, there's an effectively infinite stream of partisans. > (For whatever reason: local education is often partisan rather than > NPOV?) So, even though a core of opinionated-though-neutral editors > accumulates, there's an eternal stream of people who don't know and > don't care about NPOV or Wikipedia principles in general - as far as > they're concerned, someone is being WRONG on the Internet.
Indeed. The solution to Israel-Palestine disputes on Wikipedia is that there be some lasting resolution to the meatspace Israel-Palestine conflict. Sadly, I think that is beyond the capabilities of even our esteemed Arbitration Committee. -- Sam PGP public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sam_Korn/public_key _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
