New Israel/Palestine ArbCom case, Jayjg is one of the parties? No way! Options Rating

[Cla68]

It appears that this request for arbitration concerning the use of POV geographical terms for disputed territory in the Israel/Palestine area will be accepted. If G-Dett's statement is correct, and I believe that it is, I think she'll be making a strong case in her evidence section that at least some of the pro-Israel POV-pushers are acting in bad faith. It appears to me that the pro-Israel editors will try to focus on labeling MeteorMaker as the Bozo.

If G-Dett makes her case, and I believe she will, I hope that ArbCom will put their foot down and hand out some topic bans, if not more severe sanctions if necessary. Although I'm sure that not all of the pro-Palestinian editors are blameless, the continuous, arrogant POV pushing by the pro-Israel editors, including one in particular who is still enjoys high-level admin privileges for some reason, is greatly damaging to Wikipedia's credibility and I hope something finally gets done about it.

[EricBarbour]

Interesting. Brewcrewer, Canadian Monkey, ChrisO, Elonka, G-Dett, Jaakobou, Jayjg,
MeteorMaker, Nickhh, Nishidani, NoCal100 and Pedrito.

This list covers virtually all the Israel-POV fiddlers--
except IronDuke and the SlimMonster.

I wonder what any of this has to do with "building an encyclopedia".


This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Tue 21st April 2009, 4:35am

[Milton Roe]

Interesting. Brewcrewer, Canadian Monkey, ChrisO, Elonka, G-Dett, Jaakobou, Jayjg,
MeteorMaker, Nickhh, Nishidani, NoCal100 and Pedrito.

This list covers virtually all the Israel-POV fiddlers--
except IronDuke and the SlimMonster.

I wonder what any of this has to do with "building an encyclopedia".

Not much. It has to do with Israel/Palestine conflict in the last couple of years. There is no single article that the first 8 editors above, plus SlimVirgin and IronDuke have edited. But only because SlimVirgin hasn't edited Second Intifada. The other 9 have.

If you use for your 10 editors:
Brewcrewer, Canadian Monkey, ChrisO, Elonka, G-Dett, Jaakobou, Jayjg, IronDuke, Nickhh, and Nishidani, you get:

#1 Second_Intifada - edited by 10 of 10 users
#2 New_antisemitism - edited by 8 of 10 users
#3 Hamas - edited by 8 of 10 users
#4 2008-2009_Israel-Gaza_conflict - edited by 8 of 10 users
#5 Palestine - edited by 7 of 10 users
#6 Nahum_Shahaf - edited by 7 of 10 users
#7 Muhammad_al-Durrah - edited by 7 of 10 users
#8 Israeli_settlement - edited by 7 of 10 users
#9 Israel_and_the_apartheid_analogy - edited by 7 of 10 users
#10 Battle_of_Jenin - edited by 7 of 10 users
#11 Rachel_Corrie - edited by 6 of 10 users
#12 Pallywood - edited by 6 of 10 users
#13 Menachem_Begin - edited by 6 of 10 users
#14 King_David_Hotel_bombing - edited by 6 of 10 users
#15 Jewish_lobby - edited by 6 of 10 users
#16 Israeli-Palestinian_conflict - edited by 6 of 10 users
#17 Israel_Shahak - edited by 6 of 10 users
#18 Hezbollah - edited by 6 of 10 users
#19 Ariel_Sharon - edited by 6 of 10 users

It drops off rather quickly after that. Second Intifada is clearly the nexis. There are only 18 articles edited by 5 users, 42 by 4 of them, 146 by 3 of them, and then an incredibly long tail of 913 articles edited by jsut 2 of them. And yet, even there, the 913 are almost entirely Jewish topics! Lists of Jewish temples and stuff. I'll give a few to give you the flavor:

#1120 Abraham_Avinu_Synagogue - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1121 Abkhazia - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1122 Abdel_Aziz_al-Rantissi - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1123 Aaron_Klein - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1124 AIDS_origins_opposed_to_scientific_consensus - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1125 9/11_conspiracy_theories - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1126 7_July_2005_London_bombings - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1127 7_(number) - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1128 2009_L'Aquila_earthquake - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1129 2008_conflict_in_Lebanon - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1130 2007_Labour_party_donation_scandal - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1131 2007_Iranian_seizure_of_Royal_Navy_personnel - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1132 2006_Lebanon_War_photographs_controversies - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1133 2005_Sharm_el-Sheikh_attacks - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1134 2003_invasion_of_Iraq - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1135 2000_Camp_David_Summit - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1136 1982_Lebanon_War - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1137 1978_South_Lebanon_conflict - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1138 1973_Israeli_raid_on_Lebanon - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1139 1952_Beit_Jala_raid - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1140 1948_Palestine_war - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1141 1947-1948_Civil_War_in_Mandatory_Palestine - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1142 1920_Palestine_riots - edited by 2 of 10 users
#1143 1834_Arab_revolt_in_Palestine - edited by 2 of 10 users

I think it's fairly clear that the common interest among these editors is not simply Jewish topics or even Jewish history. Rather, it's recent Middle East Israel/Palestine conflict. So it really is a recent Israel/Palestine conflict topic war. Article-banning half these people from just 20 articles would take out the core of the whole thing. Leaving everybody entirely at peace to go after exciting history like 1978 South Lebanon conflict.

[Cla68]

I'm biased of course, but I believe that this proposed remedy is long overdue.

[The Adversary]

I'm biased of course, but I believe that this proposed remedy is long overdue.

You are right, but I don´t think it will happen. (Yes, I´m pessimist.)

Incidentally, Jay has dramatically white-washed his user-page. Jayjg started editing in 2004, but if you look at the history of his user-page it looks as if he did not have a user-page before 2006. Not true: the first 1-2 years history of his user-page has been wiped clean. A pity; it was rather fascinating, as he used it just to list the articles he was edit-warring on.

[Cla68]

I'm biased of course, but I believe that this proposed remedy is long overdue.

You are right, but I don´t think it will happen. (Yes, I´m pessimist.)

Incidentally, Jay has dramatically white-washed his user-page. Jayjg started editing in 2004, but if you look at the history of his user-page it looks as if he did not have a user-page before 2006. Not true: the first 1-2 years history of his user-page has been wiped clean. A pity; it was rather fascinating, as he used it just to list the articles he was edit-warring on.

Well, his userpage looks better than mine. Perhaps I should copy his layout style. If I do, I'll credit him somewhere on the page.

By the way, Kirill is also proposing a topic ban for him, along with equivalent restrictions for seven other editors.

This post has been edited by Cla68: Mon 27th April 2009, 5:59am