Wikipedia:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration
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This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. |
Purpose
The purpose of this collaboration project is to create a more hospitable editing environment for Category:Israeli–Palestinian conflict related topics, including through a) actively seeking the cooperation of people who are uninvolved or hold strong and differing points of views as specified under membership and b) preventing and resolving disputes about the application of Wikipedia policies to these articles. We provide various tools below to facilitate the project.
Such disputes had become a problem in so many articles that in 2008 there was a Request for arbitration on editing on Palestine-Israel articles (shortcut Wikipedia:ARBPIA). The page includes user descriptions of the problems and arbitrators' final decisions regarding the conflict: remedies (discretionary sanctions of blocks, bans, etc. by uninvolved administrators, a working group and reminding and counseling editors) and enforcement (logging of notifications, blocks and bans on users who have engaged in problematic editing on Israel-Palestine issues). Read the whole arbitration for an in depth understanding of the issues and remedies involved.
Note that until future notice, per this discussion, all articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict broadly construed are now under a WP:1RR rule (i.e., one revert per editor per article per 24 hour period). When in doubt, assume it is related. See: Template:Arab-Israeli Arbitration Enforcement, and Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles#Further remedies. Violations can be reported to either WP:Arbitration Enforcement or Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring.
Subpages
- This Wikiproject's talk page for discussing how to improve the project.
- Current Article Issues List of articles currently experiencing disputes and a Current Article Issues Discussion page for reporting or discussing issues with specific articles.
- Links to reliable sources discussions relevant to sources which you may be consider using or may find yourself challenged upon using.
Related projects
Collaboration
In Wikipedia we try to keep our collaborations transparent and try to minimize private emails and email lists, instead relying on more open forums like the talk pages of this project and the facilities available through through dispute resolution, including the various Wikipedia notice boards.
We have created an IRC channel for discussions at #wikipedia-ipcoll connect on the freenode server. To arrange a specific discussion drop a note on this project's talk page to arrange time and date. For more information see the Wikipedia IRC page.
WikiProject banner
Feel free to put {{WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration}} on talk pages of articles where project editors are active, placing it below other WikiProject banners. It will produce this banner:
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This also will add the article to Category:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration articles and make it eligible to be added to the Recent active articles list.
Recent active articles
| 16 edits | Israeli settlement |
| 5 edits | Gaza–Israel conflict |
| 2 edits | Falafel |
| 2 edits | Gaza War |
| 1 edits | Hamas |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last five days. This section is updated daily.
See also the external watchlist for Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration.
Some successful collaborations
Below is a list of articles or categories where editors of different viewpoints have successfully cooperated and collaborated to improve the encyclopedia. For details about some of these and to suggest others, see Articles We Edit.
Dealing with disputes and incidents
Content disputes at specific articles, or similar problems with Israeli-Palestinian issues, typically deserve a thorough discussion on an article's talk page and are best resolved in consensus among all participants. Despite strong emotions, there are several ways to get your point across while making it easy for people to stay cool. See Staying cool when the editing gets hot.
If this does not resolve the issue, see the list of various remedies at WP:Dispute Resolution. Seeking outside help from neutral editors often is the best way to resolve disputes.
One of the Dispute Resolution remedies is to refer issues to noticeboards and there are a number on issues like reliable sources, point of views, biographies, etc. See See Noticeboard list. There is also a notice board on Ethnic and cultural conflicts. Notice boards on Palestine-related topics and Israel-related topics also exist.
As described above, you can use Current Article Issues List to list articles currently experiencing disputes and Current Article Issues Discussion to report or discuss issues with specific articles.
If you need help in a case of alleged serious incidents (name calling or harassment) or violations of policy regarding Palestine-Israel editing issues, including possible implementation of sanctions against editors, you may go to Wikipedia Arbitration Enforcement because this issue already was dealt with under the 2008 Palestine-Israel articles arbitration. See that page's Notification log and Log of Blocks and Bans for examples of successfully mounted complaints. Remember blocks and other sanctions against other editors are intended to discourage or stop disruption; they are not intended to be punitive.
If you want are not quite ready to report incidents to Arbitration Enforcement, the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents lists places to report persistent vandalism or spamming, impolite or uncivil communications with other editors, edit warring and other incidents.
When citing or reporting alleged incidents or violations of policy, please keep the following in mind:
- When criticising particular edits, comment on the content and not identity of the contributor. Aside from the fact that attempting to challenge a particular argument by challenging the person who offered the argument constitutes a logical fallacy, it is likely to be a violation of WP:NPA.
- Before making accusations that an editor has violated a certain policy or guideline, be sure that you are familiar with the policy or guideline, and are aware of how particular terms are defined and applied. If you have doubts, please contact another editor or an administrator for clarification.
- Avoid speculating about the intent of editors and try to assume good faith. The latter part of a sentence that starts with "His/her additions violate WP:NOR and WP:NPOV because ..." should explain how the additions violate WP:NOR and WP:NPOV, not why you believe the editor made a policy-violating addition.
- Do not make allegations of harassment (including stalking) unless you have fairly strong proof of such.
- Remember that editors who repeatedly violate these principles, especially if they've been previously cautioned for doing so, will be blocked.
Membership
| السلام-שלום | This user participates in WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration. |
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Members should feel free to put the {{User WP IPCOLL}} or {{User WP IPCOLL 2}} templates on their User Page and sign on to below. See longer member statements in archives here. One can also add Category:Wikipedians interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to one's user page.
Members are encouraged, but not required, to follow dispute-reducing principles or practices, such as WP:1RR. If a member decides to pledge such a principle or practice, he or she can list it and other pledges.
Interim agreement. Pending further discussion, let's observe the following membership expectations. (Inspired by SLDRA!)
- Members commit, to the best of their ability, to always "comply with Wikipedia policies such as assuming good faith of all editors including those on the other side of the real-world dispute, writing with a neutral point of view, remaining civil and avoiding personal attacks, utilizing reliable sources for contentious or disputed assertions, and resorting to dispute resolution where necessary." (ArbCom quote)
- All editors are asked to voluntarily pledge to no more than 1RR per day (not counting rv standard 3RR exceptions)
- Overall membership needs good representation from editors/admins not involved in Israel-Palestine POV disputes as well as good, roughly balanced representation from both "sides" of the battleground
- Before joining, prospective members should consider our membership needs. Thanks!
- Decisions for the WikiProject will primarily be based on the consensus of members. Nevertheless, all non-members are dearly welcome to participate in all our collaborations and discussions.
Members
(Instructions: Add yourself to the table by copying the last two lines of the table and replacing YourUserNameHere with your UserName.)
| Member | Roles/Contribution | Pledges | Notes |
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| HG |Talk | Founding member. (Ad hoc facilitation, currently on long break) | NVC, 1RR | |
| SebastianHelm | Observer and adviser (as founding member of WP:SLR) | AOR, NVC, 1RR | |
| Taprobanus (talk) | Uninvolved. Third party opinion on any conflict issue. (Founding member of WP:SLR.) | ||
| Steve, Sm8900 (talk) | Involved editor. willing to offer some input on process. Member of WikiProject Israel. | Overall approach: inclusionist. Believe in granting both sides some leeway and benefit of the doubt, so that editors from both communities can feel that their concerns have been adequately addressed. Discussion archive | |
| DurovaCharge! | Image adjustments and restorations. GA/FA/FP coaching and impartial dispute resolution/mentorship. | ||
| Padillah (talk) | (Facilitation (e.g., Palestinian people) | ||
| Tiamuttalk | Editor involved in three other related WikiProjects (Palestine, Israel, and Arab World) | ||
| RolandR (talk) | Involved in WikiProject Palestine, and about to join WikiProject Israel | ||
| FayssalF (talk) | Observer and adviser. (ArbCom member) | AOR | |
| CarolMooreDC {talk} | Editing on this topic far more than meant to because find so much bias. | NPOV;WP:NVC; WP:BRD | Trying to actualize Jimmy Wales assertion in this interview that Wikipedia is still NPOV on this issue. |
| Ravpapa {talk} | Glad to do whatever I can | ||
| tariqabjotu (talk) | MedCom member, frequent editor in Middle East subjects | ||
| Yonatan (talk) | I'm inactive but if I'm around I'll try to help out | ||
| CasualObserver'48 (talk) | Involved editor, mostly filling historic holes to shed light not heat, and move toward NPOV. | 1RR | |
| Malik Shabazz (talk) | Member of WP:Israel and WP:PPalestine, but not active on many related articles | 1RR, Cool | |
| Shalom (talk) | I write articles about Israel. I'll offer an opinion if someone asks me. | ||
| MPerel (talk) | Member of several Jewish projects, I hope to help bring calmness, middle ground to hot articles. | NVC, 1RR | |
| Timeshifter (talk) | NPOV at a deeper level by politely pointing out systemic biases of all "sides." | CSB, 1RR | |
| Eleland (talk) | Involved, support WP:NPOV, against WP:OWNership of conflict-related articles | WP:1RR | |
| Ceedjee (talk) | Involved editor, English at a medium level in writing, support WP:V - WP:RS - WP:NPOV - WP:Undue | ||
| Yahel Guhan (talk) | Just discovered this wikiproject existed. | ||
| Itzse (talk) | Member of several Jewish projects, and committed to NPOV and to all rules of Wikipedia. | NVC, 1RR | |
| Xavexgoem (talk) | Fairly uninvolved (new) mediator at medcab | Cool, 1RR | |
| Michael Safyan (talk) | Seeking to bring accuracy, neutrality, and objectivity to Arab-Israeli conflict-related articles. | NVC, VRFY, NPOV | |
| Itsmejudith (talk) | Important initiative, should have joined a while ago. | 1RR, NPOV, CIVIL, WP:VERIFY | People might like to look at articles related to the Vietnam War, where POV disputes rarely emerge. A source of hope. (But we do have vigorous debates about use of diacritics and Chinese characters.) |
| PhilKnight (talk) | Uninvolved admin, member of the harmonious editing club | 1RR | |
| Moreschi (talk) | Uninvolved admin: User:Moreschi/The Plague. No particular bias here either way, so will be happy to, ah, enforce neutrality? | ||
| Suicup (talk) | Mainly editing Israel-Palestine conflict. Trying to improve NPOV, and structure. | ||
| Nadav1 (talk) | Won't be editing much, but heartily support the aims of this project. | ||
| LamaLoLeshLa (talk) | Hoping to contribute to eventual consolidation of narratives without demonization of Israelis or 'disappearing' of Palestinians | ||
| Phil burnstein (talk) | I want to stop fights between cousins. | 1RR, civil | I am an Israeli, a Palestinian, and an American |
| Deborahjay (talk) | Working interwiki on Arab localities in Israel. For now, disinclined to engage in mediation but available for consultation. | Member of WikiProject:Jewish History and WikiProject:Israel. Naturalized Israeli. Wikipedia inclusionist | |
| okedem (talk) | Involved in several Israel related articles, though not very active lately. | ||
| snettie (talk) | interested in editing wiki after making discoveries that wiki does not address though in Google search- realizes that there less debate and knowledge in US than in israel would like to bring a greater historical perspective of True Torah Jew members, three oaths etc and a better understanding of Dispensationlism. Snettie (talk) 18:55, 25 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
| Ashley kennedy3 (talk) | Involved, constantly, treads where other fear to (that's not meant to be derogatory to other, I understand their reasons), gets blocked consequently on a regular basis. But thinks that any major decisions need to be made with as many 'involved' editors as possible to enable us to work to the same standard and not have repeat discussions on every article that could be dealt with here. | ||
| Cerejota (talk) | Involved but not focused. Have had to take wiki-breaks. | VRFY CSB Cool | Active in WikiProject Puerto Rico, RC/CSD patrol, AfD participant (when I can!), my most recent proud wikichievement was helping beat 2008 Mumbai attacks into shape. Firm believer in countering systemic bias, in particular because the other must be heard in order to have neutrality be a meaningful word. |
| Superpie (talk) | Everybody love everybody. | NVC, 1RR, CSB,VRFY, NPOV | |
| Wodge (talk) | WP:NPOV | ||
| Zakouma (talk) | Willing to do whatever possible - not a fan of extremism or extremist opinions from both sides | ||
| Avraham (talk) | I've been trying to work with both sides for years now, although my personal opinions are pretty well known. Might as well make it official. | ||
| Snigdh.Chandra (talk) | |||
| Paul Bedson (talk) | Trying to improve knowledge of archaeological sites around the area to promote common ancestory as a reason for peace. | ||
| Kasaalan (talk) | Only facts matters, as a non-involved party, my views for solution is similar to international view of UN, whoever commits human rights violations I add with proof, no exception, {{inclusionist}}, wikibreak | WP:NPOV, WP:VERIFY | I have friends and share views with many Arab/Palestinian and Jewish/Israeli people as long as they seek peace, I oppose both Hamas like anti-democratic Islamic fundamentalist views-acts (torture, civilian killings etc.) and most serious human right violations of Israeli government-IDF politics (Jewish fundamentalists) especially over civilians, equally, though as a state and stronger party Israeli state-army violates human rights/kills more innocent civilians/children/babies more often and more widely than Hamas while they can also cover up violations more easily, yet that doesn't mean Hamas is any better or different than IDF. |
| AFriedman (talk) | I'll be happy to help keep discussions about articles in this WikiProject civil and articles NPOV. I've enjoyed doing this for other contentious articles. | WP:NPOV, WP:1RR, WP:CIVIL | I recently read a Wikipedia article about a journalist in the Islamic world who had been imprisoned for expressing moderate views on the conflict. Reading about him inspired me to join this WikiProject. I think it's important to promote free speech, and unfortunate that so many countries don't allow this. I don't agree with what extremist Jews are doing in Israel, either. |
| CordeliaNaismith (talk) | I want to help with increasing civility on wikipedia on dialog on this topic, and helping ensure that pages within the scope of this project adhere to WP:NPOV. | WP:NPOV,WP:1RR,WP:CIVIL | I am joining this project because I saw that User:AFriedman joined. I'm also joining because I was reading some contentious talk pages within the scope of this project, and think that it's useful to have a project like this. |
| PaliChristianGurl | Will be involved in writing for articles concerning Palestinian and Arab Christians or/and Assyrian and Armenian Christians living in the Arab World, and their hopes and challenges. Will be writing about their status in the Arab societies and documenting any discrimination or persecution that they indure. | ||
| Peter Cohen (talk) | Alerting board of disputes. Reporting suspected socks etc. whatever side of the debate they are on. Identifying new users on articles I watch, welcoming them and advising them of battlefield issues and related Wikiprojects. | WP:NPOV, WP:CIVIL, WP:VERIFY | I've been contributing to project pages so long that I should really record myself as a member. |
| unomi (talk) | Recently started editing articles related to I/P. | WP:NPOV, WP:CIVIL, WP:VERIFY | I think a project such as this is crucial to ensuring that wikipedia covers I/P material appropriately. |
| NickCT (talk) | Interested in general I/P issues | WP:NPOV, WP:CSB, WP:Cool | Moderates on both sides of this debate must work to exclude extremists on both sides of this debate. Except in cases of blatant violation, avoid arbitration. |
| ZScarpia | Roams around the general WP:ARBPIA area in no discernible (to me) pattern. | 2RR (Aspiring to 1RR), NPOV, CIVIL | Hopes to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. |
| Ling.Nut (talk) | Editor | WP:5P, eventualism | |
| Alvaro Azevedo Moura | Uninvolved in the conflict. Interested in Peace in Middle East. | Shalom, Salam, Peace. | |
| Haberstr | Still a lot of scope for NPOV progress. | 1RR, NPOV, CIVIL | With compromise and commitment to NPOV and balance, optimistic about overcoming obstacles to stable NPOV I/P. |
| Oncenawhile | Have been involved on and off - I'll help where I can | WP:NPOV, WP:1RR, WP:VERIFY | I have studied the conflict, but there's no better education than learning from other WP editors |
| Arielkoiman | With knowledge on the subject, I hope to contribute positively toward a neutral consensus on this issue. Reconciliation is fundamental. | 1RR, WP:Cool, CIVIL, CSB | Typically I write from a centrist viewpoint, and have little tolerance for fundamentalism and aggression (again, on both sides). |
| Koakhtzvigad | I am more interested in ensuring the correct terminology is used, and the articles are properly referenced | WP:RS, balance, WP:VERIFY, NPOV, 1RR, CIVIL, CSB | I have a general knowledge of international law, and defence matters, and a love of history. |
| Bbeehvh | Hopelessly optimistic, but I am optimistic | I have a general knowledge of defence matters, and a love of history. | |
| Ohiostandard | Anything that might help make the topic area more collegial and less confrontational is good. | Learning as I go, about the complex history of the conflict. | |
| Nightw | Mostly addressing sourcing concerns and aiming to contribute to a neutral consensus when needed. | NPOV, V, RS, 1RR. | |
| MichaelNetzer (talk) | Have been involved in articles on settlements with numerous talk page discussions on policy and article improvement. Member of WikiProject Israel. | Sources, Balance, Civility, Neutrality | Spent a good part of my life on both sides of the conflict and believe it's imperative we try to work things out in an atmosphere conducive to goodwill. General understanding of the history as well as the cultural nuances fueling the division. |
| user:Crossovershipper talk | I will make some edits to pages relating to the israel/palestine conflict here and there,to add some facts, and to fix some biases. Also i will edit and add pages of notable palestinians and israelis, if needed. | Cool;NVC; NPOV | When i did some research on this topic, this topic was more complicated than i thought , and i learned that neither side is innocent. I got tired of seeing loaded, biased articles on this topic on the web. I also got tired of the immuature fanatics on both sides of this debate. So i decided to do what i can get more people aware of some of the basic truths to this conflict. |
| Jprg1966 (talk) | I do some janitorial tasks, as well as more substantial ones (like improving the machine translation of Jerusalem during the crusader period). | I am glad to provide Third Opinions. I am fairly knowledgeable about the conflict overall, with special focus on the post-Oslo negotiations and Israeli domestic politics. |
Inviting potential members
Variations on this message can be put on article or user talk pages.
- Dear _______: As a member of the WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration I encourage you to consider joining our project. (Note any relevant specifics of individual or article situation.) The purpose of this collaboration project is to create a more hospitable editing environment for Category:Israeli-Palestinian conflict related topics and preventing and resolving disputes about the application of Wikipedia policies to these articles. We provide various tools to facilitate the project. Please check out the main page and Current Articles Issues pages and contact me if you have any questions.
Or you can insert this template {{subst:Template:WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration invitation}} into their talk page. This results in the following welcome message:
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We invite you to join WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration. There you can also find and coordinate with users who are trying to improve Israeli–Palestinian conflict articles. If you would like to get involved, just visit the project page. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or other project members. |
Templates for Users
- Template:Falafel is a WikiLove template designed with this WikiProject in mind, and intended to be left on User talk pages. For example, to promote WikiLove in this project, the Falafel template can be left on the Talk pages of new users who join.
Wikipedians interested in welcoming other users to this project
- AFriedman (talk) 03:55, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
- PhilKnight (talk) 13:27, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
- CarolMooreDC (talk) 12:54, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
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