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I see this has reached a new low in terms of disruptive editing.
Uri Avnery, a former Knesset member, newspaper editor, and founder of Gush Shalom is now a random editorial author. This incredibly non-controversial fact that Orlev proposed this bill and it passed its preliminary reading is so easily sourcable that it is demonstrably bad faith editing to remove it.
Two seconds of looking for it. It is unreal that people are actively trying to damage our articles, and editing material they have no understanding of. nableezy -
02:44, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
If it's so easily source-able, then an opinion column shouldn't be used to source it, regardless of who wrote the column. It's not "degrading an article" to point that out. Your comments here cross the line of
WP:NPA.
XOR'easter (
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03:58, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Uri Avnery was a newspaper editor and
regularly cited and quoted in scholarly works, he is a perfectly usable source for whether or not Orlev sponsored a piece of legislation that passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset. And blanket removal of mundane details that are easily sourceable, and are already sourced to a reliable source, is in fact degrading an article. nableezy -
04:47, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I considered who
Uri Avnery was and how the source in question was published, and I concluded that
WP:RSOPINION applied, and indeed
WP:BLPSPS could reasonably be said to given the uncertainty of the level of editorial oversight involved. So, no, the source couldn't definitively be called reliable for the purpose, and nothing was "degraded" by removing it.
XOR'easter (
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05:07, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
No, it is not an opinion whether or not Orlev sponsored a piece of legislation that passed its preliminary reading. That is a matter of established fact. And yes, a newspaper editor and routinely cited and quoted expert on Israeli politics is reliable for that statement of fact. He was not cited for any opinion whatsoever. You still have not returned the pertinent fact to the article, despite knowing it is a verifiable fact. nableezy -
05:14, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
WP:RSOPINION is pretty clear that it was the wrong kind of source to use. And we still have to consider what is
WP:DUE (which requires getting a full sense of how RS have generally covered it), and how best to organize that section of the article (chronological? topical?). Wedging in mention of bills that a politician supported without putting in that kind of effort verges into
WP:INDISCRIMINATE territory. The Jerusalem Post story linked above describes it as one of a bundle of loyalty bills, and mentions the involvement of many people while saying nothing about Orlev's role. So, the text in dispute isn't really a good summary of it. In short, there are plenty of humdrum matters of ordinary editing that need to be decided, and peremptory insistence can't make that happen faster.
XOR'easter (
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05:26, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Ok, I dont really get what youre arguing about here. What viewpoint is given undue weight when discussing Orlev's bill? What viewpoint is not given enough weight? Is there something concrete in what you are arguing here? This is not self-published books, zines, websites, webforums, blogs and tweets, making the latter part of RSOPINION not relevant, and this is not relaying the authors opinion about anything. What exactly are you arguing here? That Orlev did not sponsor a bill calling for the imprisonment of anybody who denies Israel is both Jewish and democratic? That this bill did not pass its preliminary reading? You want more sources?
[1],
[2],
[3]. This is probably the most significant thing Orlev did in his Knesset term. nableezy -
05:40, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Opinion columns are bad sources for facts. That's it. If it really was the most significant thing Orlev did in his Knesset term, then the text in dispute completely failed to indicate that (as well as failing to indicate who its other prominent supporters were, what opposition it drew, and other such things that the available sources cover
[6] and that someone reading about politics would typically expect to learn). Rushing to restore what was there before is the opposite of taking the time to get it right.
XOR'easter (
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05:50, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I restored an obvious fact. That you think the source is poor is an opinion you can hold, but in that case look for a better source. And Ive helped you with that, by bringing several sources, including a peer reviewed journal article and a book published by Cambridge University Press. Do you want to keep pretending that Avnery somehow was not accurately relaying the fact you removed from the article? nableezy -
05:59, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
I'm not "pretending" anything, and casting aspersions like that is
poor form. I'm saying that, as a matter of policy, there are bad places to point to for good facts. Honestly, every other source listed here appears better than the one removed, but having the whole pile of them just underlines the fact that the disputed text was not very good. A whole paragraph could be drafted on the topic, which would be more helpful to the reader. "In 2009, Orlev sponsored one of a pair of nationalistic bills, both of which drew intense controversy. Orlev's bill would have criminalized the act of..." (Exact phrasing obviously up for discussion.) Give a little context, say more about who supported and opposed it, indicate more clearly how far it got and why, etc.
XOR'easter (
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06:18, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
RSOPINION does not support the idea that an opinion piece by an established expert, and Uri Avnery had been writing about and been cited on Israeli politics for decades up until his death, is not reliable for the facts it presents as fact. Yes, a whole bunch more can be written about this bill. That does not negate that what was written about the bill is factual and completely uncontested. And still not in the article for some reason. I have no intention on edit-warring here. A user removed a source as deprecated, I replaced it with a non-deprecated one. After that same user careless removed it again claiming it was deprecated when it was not, I reverted once. I have no intention of returning this material to the article, one of the people who removed it can do that if they care about the quality of this article. Im done though. nableezy -
07:06, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Shrike, if you are unable to read this section to think that is the only source then thats a whole different problem. And Gush Shalom is fine for a BLP. This is not a controversial fact in any way whatsoever. nableezy -
14:23, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
This is now extra silly. Shrike, there are five freaking sources on this page in this section that you have replied to. Unreal. nableezy -
15:33, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
WP:TE is prohibited in an area covered by discretionary sanctions. And Gush Shalom is not a subpar source, repeating the same falsehood does not make it magically true. You are removing material you know is accurate.
WP:TE to a literal tee. nableezy -
15:42, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply
Extremist or not, we're talking about a statement by the founder of a group on that group's website. That's basically a
self-published source, and so
WP:BLPSPS says that it's unsuitable for a biography about someone other than the author. There are actually six other sources, counting the Haaretz story I found, but reading them makes clear just how mediocre a summary of the incident the removed text was. We're
not on a deadline here, writing about something that happened over a decade ago, so why not take a deep breath and craft some text that explains the topic properly?
XOR'easter (
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16:00, 25 December 2021 (UTC)reply