User:Ealdgyth/Thoughts on Holocaust in Poland editing

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This is not an exhaustive list at all. I'm pretty sure I weighed in on the lifting of the topic bans for VM and GCB, and I know I've weighed in on many other Arb Enforcement threads that I can't find easily (incidentally, I'd love to see links to the discussions that lifted those topic bans). Nothing is resolved or fixed yet. There is still a disinclination to actually look past the surface and get into the meat of the issue - which is a distortion of the articles through various means. Instead, it's still a battleground (the comments here at this page show several examples of it) that has too many people interested in scoring points against the "other side" (and that holds true for both "sides") rather than actually fixing the articles. As for the existing procedures - they aren't working. The sourcing restriction is a joke - when one of the arb enforcement threads resulted in a warning for Buidhe for removing sources that did not fit the sourcing reqs, it's clear that the sourcing requirement isn't working (see the Jan 2021 comment listed above). In that example, the Mark Paul source that's been discussed to death in the past as an unreliable source was restored over Buidhe's objections and Buidhe was told by the admins at that enforcement that basically, no matter the requirement for using only high-quality sources AND the fact that previous discussions had come to the conclusion that Mark Paul did not meet the enhanced sourcing requirements in the topic area, the onus was on her to prove AGAIN on the talk page that the Paul source (and others) did not meet the requirements. I think we can see that the sourcing requirement isn't working. On whether I think arbitration now would solve the issues? Given the track record of past arbcoms, forgive me for not having a lot of hope that anything will change. But sure, let me try again. Please read my above past statements. They still ALL apply. It's still a battleground where too much time is spent chasing Icewhiz and not enough time fixing articles. And why should I try to fix them when it's likely that I'm just going to have to fight tooth-and-nail to exclude obviously unreliable sources like Mark Paul? (Please to note that I'm as opposed to including anything that pushes a "all Poles were collaborators with the Nazis" POV also.) The subject of the German actions in Poland in the Holocaust (and by extension, the whole of Eastern Europe) is one where nothing is easy and it's too easy to fall prey to POV-pushing. What's needed is calm discussion without battleground behavior and the willingness to compromise. That's not happening, and the only reason it's not nastier right now is that much of the attention is now focused on Russian-Ukrainian issues due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This is a bit over 500 words, but I'm going to beg folks' indulgence on it.

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