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edits by bakilas
U have rv my edits saying they are pov. Please explain to me what qualificatoins u have to advise me on this. And clearly what part of my edits are POV. An encyclopedia is not aplace to convey your pov nly. you have been warned— Preceding
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Survivors accounts from Reuters
I have added new information from Reuters which says survivors confirm the fact that the LTTE fired from near the camp first.[
[1]] Considering what has been going on on WP over Sri Lanka related articles, I will just like to remind everyone that removing any of it will be regarded as vandalism. Please do not make POV edits to this artlce. --
snowolfD4(
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I have also noticed incorrect use of terse edit summary to justify changes by user snowolfd4. What user citermon wrote was not POV.
Elalan14:23, 12 November 2006 (UTC)reply
This is only one supposed eyewitness source by anonymous person talking to Reuters and has to be stated so. All other credible independent sources say something else. Hence without confirmation from other credible sources, this is a minority opinion.
Elalan13:46, 12 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Read the article well. It says, "On Friday, survivors who have since fled to a shelter in government territory in the east told Reuters the Tigers had fired first from near their camp in the rebel area." Note the word SURVIVORS. Plural. Although the article quotes only one survivor, that does not mean only 1 women told the correspondent that the LTTE fired first. And changing the wording to something like "An anonymous 27-year-old Tamil woman in government held territory " is pure POV so please do not do so.--
snowolfD4(
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You have selectively chosen one source that fits your POV and ran with it. I am not so sure what there to hide ? The majority of the credible sources don't match with the Reuters report. It has to be mentioned these survivors were in government territory when they spoke to Reuters.
Elalan13:47, 13 November 2006 (UTC)reply
1st show me a reliable article that says survivors said the LTTE did not fire motars first.
2nd the SLMM says that there are no military installations in the area. That does not mean the LTTE did not fire from there. The LTTE is known to use a number of highly moblie pieces of artillary. That is why the Air Force has done only limited damage to them. They fire from one location and move them somewhere else in a very short period of time.
3rd Reuters says survivors said that the LTTE fired first. Reuters is generally considered a RS on Wikipedia. If you dispute this report, and say the survivors interviewed were fake, get an admin to agree with you that it is not reliable. --
snowolfD4(
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There is room for both views but at the end reuters justlike Tamilnet is a news reporting agency and have known to make mistakes and reflect the biases of local contributers. We can prolong the pain in this article or gon on to other creative articles. But at the end this article should reflect both the point of view as well as the missing warning from the US to SL that said even if it were a human sheild the SLArmy should not make this mistake in the future.
RaveenS02:12, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
RaveenS, I changed "unconfirmed" to "interviwed by Reuters". The reader should be given the chance to judge whether they want to believe it or not. I hope that is agreeable and is clears the confusion caused by the word "unconfirmed". --
snowolfD4(
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There is a logical fallacy with the reuters and government report. If the refugees were held as human shields then the LTTE prevented them from leaving their territory. But according to the Reuters report, the survivors came into government territory, so then the LTTE didn't prevent them from leaving. Hence there is a logical problem with the "human shield" claim by the govt. Clearly the govt version of events conflicts with the Reuters report.
Elalan04:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Unconfirmed has to stay, since this conflicts with the SLMM statement and with govt version of events, where the refugees were held as "human shields" by the LTTE.
Elalan04:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
I agree with Citermon's changes. Widely agreed facts come first and then the controversial stuff or unconfirmed stuff. The Reuters side of the story deserves to be in the article, but not before generally agreed upon facts. The Reuters report conflicts with the govt. events and has to be stated so. As Citermon mentioned, it would otherwise seem that wordings would attempt to justify the attack on civilians, on which literally everyone expect the SLA has severely condemned.
Elalan13:53, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
I agree with Elalan about the matter and the report I saw in the Reuters could not be considered neutral, Reported by Ranga Sirilal in Colombo. One thing is the people were interviewed by Reuters could have been threatened to tell the story because east is full of kidnapping and killing of people opposing paramilitaries and the government. There may well be a chance for those people to not to be the real refugees. Anyway, I decided to keep the citation, but moved it to a lower order as per my opinion and Elalan's. -16T02:49, 15 November 2006 (UTC)reply
You really need to look at what you're saying. Do you mean Reuters is a POV source? Or is it POV only if it the report contradicts what you want to believe? Reuters is considered an NPOV source on Wikipedia. Again, if you didpute that get an admin to agree with you.
Snowolf you have not shown the statement contradict the SLMM statement. This is a clear case of POV pushing, where you want your version of things in intro, with other stuff particularly from the Neutral SLMM wording off to the side. The SLMM view on this has more weight, since they were at the scene. The reuters reports from survivors who were interviewed in govt. area. There is no confirmation whatsover that these people were survivors. Snowolf you cant expect to revert to your version expect the rest of us to play dead.
Elalan14:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)reply
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