Free Azawad! Options

[Mister Die]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azawad

So a rebel group declares independence and Wikipedia immediately starts treating it as its own ("disputed") country whereas the sensitivities of Mali, which potentially stands to lose like 50% of its territory, is apparently not worth taking into account.

Do they really want Wikipedia being able to influence people on events which have just transpired in the span of... less than 5 hours ago?

This post has been edited by Mister Die: Fri 6th April 2012, 11:56am

[Mister Die]

In the sense that it creates a false impression that there is a perfectly independent country called Azawad and making it look like any attempt to make this 'country' not exist would be akin to invading it, then yes.

I mean they don't even call the article the "Independent State of Azawad" or whatever, it's just called Azawad (and this has political implications as well, since the actual historical region is a fair bit larger than Tuareg-inhabited Malian territory.)

The biggest issue is that tons of people are going to be influenced by a Wikipedia article about an event that has just happened, and said event is something people have fought and died over and a fully-recognized sovereign state (Mali, of course) had a coup d'état in response to. And this is being edited by anyone.

I mean come on, they're just jumping the gun at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Azawad

Whole articles on Malian history and politics are going to be "adjusted" because of a sudden announcement.

This post has been edited by Mister Die: Fri 6th April 2012, 3:13pm