Talk:Bahrain Centre for Human Rights

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[edit] Protection

I've protected this article for 3 days. Please work out any content issues on this page rather than edit warring. — Scientizzle 16:49, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, I see that this is simply the same editor POV-pushing over and over. Protection will be lifted; IP blocked. — Scientizzle 16:55, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removing pro-government POV

@ User:Fistful of dynamite: Please take the time to change individual edits of mine which you disagree with rather than the mass undo. All of my edits have included sources. I have only removed things which are POV or unsourced (because of the controversial nature of the article). When you say something is a controversy, please provide a source which shows it is a controversy. i.e. Just because YOU think Alkhawaja's admiration of Khomeini is a controversy does not make it one. It is a mere fact but not a controversy. --Zayed1 (talk) 17:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Zayed, it looks like you have removed a lot of content which is sourced, and for no apparant reason. Your edits are likely to be reverted. Carl.bunderson (talk) 23:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Zayed, thank you for your message. You state that that you’ve only removed information that is POV or unsourced, yet this explanation does not seem to account for the blanking of entire sections of the text. For instance, you have deleted any reference to the BCHR’s publishing of the OpenDemocracy article which states that Al Khawaja is an admirer of Ayatollah Khomeini. This is a sourced first hand reference, and it is not clear how it violates wikipedia’s POV policy, yet you provide no reason for its removal. This is only one example – there are many more throughout the article including the blanking of an entire subsections of sourced text such as the link with the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain and its activities.

Given that it is not immediately clear how much of your deletion of sourced content conforms to wikipedia’s POV policy, the onus is on you to provide an explanation for material you are blanking. I have therefore reverted the text to the previous edit by Kralizec!.

I appreciate that you may not find anything controversial in a human rights activist expressing admiration for Khomeini. Maybe its just a personal opinion and that in some human rights circles its considered nothing out of the ordinary. But I don't think so. Wikipedia's editing policy is its up to readers to make up their own minds and they should have the chance to do so. But I want to reach a consensus about the text and so if you don’t think there’s anything controversial then you’re welcome to move the subsection ‘Great Man’ Khomeini from the Controversies section to the Overview.

Fistful of dynamite (talk) 11:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)