User:PalestineRemembered/Saeb Erekat

Saeb Erekat - 8:1 consensus defied for 19 months
This table (unveiled 19th Jan 2008) presented the views of every editor (9 in total) on this TalkPage since its creation in Sep 2006. The last edit-warring inclusion of the BLP version was on 10th April 2008, so the entire effort to get a crucial policy implemented took 19 months. There had been (and has been since) no other TalkPage activity on this important biography, which remains very deficient. You may reasonable conclude that one editor seized OWNERSHIP of this article, and edit-warred eight others into silence, driving at least two good literate editors out of the project in the process. The editor in question had to be finally over-come by edit-warring brute force in April 2008, though the article still contains a vestigal version of the worthless claim.

A great deal is known about Saeb Erekat (as a web-search will show) - not even partisan RSs think the arguments of 2002 worth mentioning.

Seperate to the above, my table here suggests (by original research) that the conclusion so bitterly fought for is factually wrong as well - Erekat sometimes exaggerated but did not lie - whereas every Israeli spokesmen deviated from their own official figure by such large margins it would be reasonable to call each one of them a liar. PRtalk 14:40, 17 August 2008 (UTC)