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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
Anyways, ArbCom has opened (reopened?) the Holocaust in Poland case, likely
due to this journal article.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2023, 6:10 a.m. Ndahiro Derrick Alter <
ndahiroderric@gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't be surprised that much, after seeing the same distortion happening
> where the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi
> <https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/tutsigenocide#:~:text=On%207%20April%2C%20UNESCO%20commemorates,the%20Hutu%20extremist%2Dled%20government.> is
> termed as the Rwandan genocide
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide>, a statement used by
> deniers.
>
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 at 03:36, Clover Moss <clovermosswikipedia@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Piotrus and Volunteer Marek, among others, are Wikipedians mentioned in
>> the above article. I contacted those two individuals because I felt it was
>> fair for them to be aware that people were discussing them in an off wiki
>> venue. Anyways, Piotrus said that I could share their response:
>> Thank you for the information, but I am unsure how to find that
>> particular discussion. I am aware of the general context (the article),
>> which is being discussed in some places on Wikipedia. My quick comment on
>> it is that this article contains numerous errors and inaccuracies (mixed
>> with an occasional fair point or critique, nothing is white and black), and
>> seems significantly based on data provided to the researches by a very
>> tainted source, i.e. globally banned user Icewhiz, who was first topic
>> banned the Polish-Jewish topic area by ArbCom, then site banned from
>> Wikimedia Projects for harassment of myself, Volunteer Marek and others.
>> You are welcome to post my above message there through a direct quote.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 12:38 p.m. <adamhrngzo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> I would like to bring this scholarly article to your urgent attention:
>>> Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust (
>>> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25785648.2023.2168939)
>>> Even though it's title is somewhat suspicious it describes a very specific
>>> problem on English Wikipedia which is tragic and unacceptable. I'm happy to
>>> help any way I can to solve this but I hope that admins will act on this as
>>> soon as possible.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Adam
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