Wikipedia banned eight volunteer editors from making changes to articles on the Arab-Israeli conflict, following a ruling on Thursday by the online encyclopedia’s Arbitration Committee.
In June, Wikipedia editors targeted the Anti-Defamation League, declaring it an “unreliable source” whose data could not be relied upon when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When Wikipedia first announced disciplinary action against the Wikipedia editors, the ADL issued a press release praising the decision “in the wake of a massive effort by anti-Israel editors to spread misinformation and hate across the platform.”
ADL listed all but one of the banned anti-Israel editors. It named “Iskandar323,” “Selfstudier,” “Nableezy,” “Levivich” and “Nishidani” as “being part of a bad-faith campaign in an attempt t o undermine the credibility of ADL.”
Dude, honestly, fuck off. You have absolutely zero idea what you’re talking about. You read an article (and maybe that’s a generous assumption) published over a year ago by an outlet I seriously doubt you’ve ever heard of about a governing body you’ve never heard of and editors you’ve definitely never heard of that didn’t take even a single quote from Wikipedia and that I don’t think you could interpret even if they did. You are devaluing the hard work of hundreds of thousands of editors because you like to think you know jack shit when you haven’t taken more than three minutes to look into this.
We’ll keep being one of the most important resources in the history of mankind – a light in a world succumbing to the darkness of fascism and disinformation, you can keep pissing and crying on social media, and we’ll leave it at that.