User:Factomancer/Contributions
Contributions of which I'm most proud
[edit]I rewrote Weak reference and State space (controls) in 2004 (as my previous account style). The material, particularly the introductions, has largely survived after 6 years of heavy editing and expansion of those articles (Weak reference diff 2004-2010, State space diff 2004-2010). To write material that survives years of the to-and-fro of daily editing is the goal of my Wikipedia contributions.
Major content contributions to Wikipedia
[edit]- Created OPV AIDS hypothesis.
- Rewrote Weak reference.
- Rewrote State space (controls).
- Rewrote 1982 Lebanon War.
- Created Palestinian freedom of movement.
- Created Israeli settler violence.
- Created Israeli settlement timeline.
- Created Israeli settlement population graph, used in Israeli settlements.
- Created Ommatoiulus moreletii.
- Created Munich: Mossad's Revenge.
- Created 1950-1951 Baghdad bombings.
- Created Abbas Shiblak.
- Created Operation Damocles
Neutrality
[edit]Despite writing about Palestinian topics, I am absolutely committed to WP:NPOV and always try to present both sides of _any_ topic I write about. Here are some representative examples of myself writing for the Israeli point of view.
- Palestinian freedom of movement - "The Israeli Justice Ministry claims that the roadblocks were put in place in order to protect Israeli citizens from suicide and shooting attacks by Palestinian militants and have prevented hundreds of such attacks. [1]" [12]
- 1950-1951 Baghdad bombings - "Moshe Gat has argued that the attacks were the work of Iraqis of extreme Arab nationalist persuasion and did not spur the Jewish exodus from Iraq[6][9].
Gat reports that much of the previous literature "reflects the universal conviction that the bombings had a tremendous impact on the large-scale exodus of the Jews... To be more precise it is suggested that the Zionist emissaries committed these brutal acts in order to uproot the properous Iraqi Jewish community and bring it to Israel".[10] However, Gat argues that both claims are contrary to the evidence. As summarized by Mendes:" ([13])
It is true that I often write about Palestinian topics; I don't deny that whatsoever. But it is only natural for a Palestinian to write about Palestinian topics just like people of any nationalionity or ethnic group tend to write about their own nation or people. Editing familiar subjects allows one to make use of expert knowledge. Wikipedia is a big enough place to tolerate and make use of people with all kinds of interests and specialties. Wikipedia's cooperative neutrality process is robust enough to produce a neutral, objective end result even if editors have radically divergent opinions on a subject.
- Think tanks - [16]
- OPV AIDS hypothesis (as style)
- Weak reference - (as style)
- State space (controls) - (as style)