Muhammad_al-Durrah & WP:OWN, Slim & Jayjg tag-team again Options

[gomi]

The article on Muhammad al-Durrah may turn out to be another good example of the methods by which Slim, Jayjg, and their like control parts of Wikipedia.

To refresh your memory, al-Durrah was the little boy who was (allegedly) shot by Israeli Defense Forces in 2000, and caught on film by a French cameraman, prompting an international outcry. Given this is Middle-Eastern politics, the predictable outcome is that there is controversy and wrangling on every aspect of the poor child's apparent demise. Was he shot by the Israelis, the Palestinians, or is he still alive somewhere? Was the whole thing staged? Sigh.

Now that Slim and Jayjg have completed their ownership of Pallywood (which accuses Palestinians of staging events for the international media), this is the next step down the slime-covered slope.

Intelligent minds can and do certainly disagree about almost every aspect of Israeli/Palestinian politics. But what Wikipedia has become is a mouthpiece for zealous campaigners from and for every possible point of view, and articles like this one, which should be two paragraphs long, become larded with page after page of theory, accusation, counter-accusation, innuendo, and utter baloney -- all carefully sourced, of course, to various equally zealous websites, newsrags, and other printed diatribes. Can anyone seriously imagine that this is "encyclopedic" treatment?


AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!

[Somey]

And just for a little extra context, all of this is going on whilst everyone's attention is diverted to the "Attack sites" policy-proposal controversy... The perfect time for a little extra rule-bending! (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/laugh.gif)

Another thing Slimmy did was to protect the "Neoconservatism" article, citing an "edit war," immediately after Jayjg removed a section entitled "Neoconservatism, American Jews, and 'Dual Loyalty.'" Needless to say, this section suggested that some Jewish neocons in the United States might have certain ulterior motives for being neocons.

I suspect they felt that was rather "unhelpful," to say the least...