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Thread for general India-related editwars/scandals

Post by ericbarbour » Fri Mar 06, 2020 10:04 am

Communicated to me today, a comment by someone I've seen in India/Pakistan editwars.
I'm a random person on Reddit who had heard about your work some weeks earlier, so I have made strange bedfellows on behalf of you by asking some Indian BJP nationalists to help find a publishing house. They would let me or you know if they found one.

As a background, Wikipedia fucked up once again when DBigXray made biased edits on Delhi riots page by deleting any mentions of violence from Muslim side which would be obviously politically correct. This time the BJP supporters are not having it and several verified Indian reporters and celebrities proceeded to rail against Wikipedia, in addition to an OpIndia investigation piece.

https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/delhi-a ... stigation/

This is officially a game of thrones level thriller now.

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Re: Thread for general India-related editwars/scandals

Post by ericbarbour » Sat Dec 26, 2020 8:14 pm

It's not often that you see the results of Wikipedia POV pushing in the news media--in this case, about the leader of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Muslim sect. The government has been trying to repress them, along with various minor Muslim and other religious/political groups. Pakistan is (still) a silly place. But not as silly as Wikipedia.

https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-threaten ... a-56061236
"Complaints were also received regarding hosting of caricatures of Holy Prophet (PBUH) and dissemination of misleading, wrong, deceptive and deceitful information through articles published on Wikipedia portraying Mirza Masroor Ahmad as a Muslim," the PTA said in a statement published on its official Twitter handle.
Heavily editwarred and bearing the signs of editing by Ahmadiyya followers, and by Westerners showing contempt for them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirza_Masroor_Ahmad

I've only poked into this a bit, but it appears that someone would write a long textbook about Ahmadiyya content on Wikipedia and the squabble over it. Much ugliness is hidden here.

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