User talk:Mathmensch/Archives/2016/October

Thank you

Hi, thank you for starting the ANI thread re Special:Contributions/Zaostao. I've previously observed their tendentious editing at the article on the white supremacist Jared Taylor, and I was not surprised to see that they would have neo-Nazi dog whistles on their page (although I would not have understood them personally; I must have looked). Good riddance. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:24, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Bashar al-Assad

Hello,

In regards to the article of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, I would be happy to provide further citations. However, I find the article in its current state severely and extremely biased, particularly in the first section. Words such as 'regime' are commonly applied on the basis of political opinion, and it includes highly disputed details. The article provides little arguments and beliefs held by those who are either neutral or are for him, or any positive facts about his government. Relating to the claim the candidates of the Syrian presidential election were government-sanctioned, this is also a debated issue. Many individuals believe, as well as the governments mentioned in the next section, that the elections were carried out in a manner that was acceptable. I was simply trying to solve this. In this article, please try to be as impartial as possible in future edits, and mention arguments of all sides. Thanks. Trainsandtech 08:48, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

@Trainsandtech:,

Neither arguments nor beliefs belong to a Wikipedia article, unless they are relevant and given by sources. With absolute certainty I shall try to be as impartial as possible, and I have been so in particular when editing the article Bashar al-Assad.

You claim that some details were highly disputed, although they are confirmed by reliable sources. You claim that positive facts about his government should be included, although reliable sources don't consider these noteworthy (and I don't know whether any noteworthy positive facts about his government exist at all).

Furthermore, no governments claim that the elections were acceptable. To the contrary, the delegation consisted of parliamentarians and officials. This means that the delegation may have contained any sort of elected parliamentarian, including those on the far-right. (Indeed, he has repeatedly invited individuals from the far-right, such as David Duke.)

On the other hand, your edit had several flaws, which I explained already on your talk page. Unfortunately, you deleted this explanation. --Mathmensch (talk) 09:49, 10 October 2016 (UTC)