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[[User:Tiamut|<b><font color="#B93B8F">T</font><font color="#800000">i</font><font color="#B93B8F">a</font><font color="#800000">m</font><font color="#B93B8F">u</font><font color="#800000">t</font></b>]]^{[[User_talk:Tiamut|talk]]} 08:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

:Regarding your edits to [[Al-Bassa]], before removing or altering sourced information, I would appreciate it very much if you would open a discussion on the talk page first. Bringing new sources to the discussion that contain the information you are seeking to alter would help. Thank you and welcome to Wikipedia. [[User:Tiamut|<b><font color="#B93B8F">T</font><font color="#800000">i</font><font color="#B93B8F">a</font><font color="#800000">m</font><font color="#B93B8F">u</font><font color="#800000">t</font></b>]]^{[[User_talk:Tiamut|talk]]} 08:41, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

::Is it necessary to discuss a patently false implication? If an article were to state: "The the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution limits African Americans to two terms as President",ref>[http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights]</ref> must we open up a discussion before removing the patently misleading reference to African Americans?

::Yes, it is true that Palestinian Citizens of Israel lived under martial law during the period mentioned. As did Jewish Israeli Citizens living in the same area. The obvious false implication of the statement is that this state of law applied in a discriminatory way. By all means, as per your request, I will refrain from clarifying even the most biased of implications.

::The statement: "One witness to the expulsion said that it was preceded by soldiers shooting and killing five villagers inside the church, while another said seven villagers were brutally shot and killed by soldiers outside the church." is an extremely inaccurate, unnecessarily biased (how was this alleged shooting any more "brutal" than those fired back?) and very possibly untrue. I checked the source, and the author himself provides no source. He merely makes a claim. How is it that what originated as an absolutely unsourced claim mysteriously transformed itself into a statement of fact?

::I have every intention of abiding by Wikipedia's editing protocols. Please explain to me the proper manner of correcting obvious errors, intentional or not, the the guidelines you've supplied are simply of no help.

::In it's simplest sense, should an article state: 1+1=3, am I free to replace the 3 with a 2? [[User:AbdulHornochsmannn|AbdulHornochsmannn]] ([[User talk:AbdulHornochsmannn#top|talk]]) 19:54, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

[[User:AbdulHornochsmannn|AbdulHornochsmannn]] ([[User talk:AbdulHornochsmannn#top|talk]]) 19:54, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

:::Please discuss on the article talk page. Not here.

:::This is not math, its about historical narratives, some of which are bound to conflict.

:::There is no such thing as [[WP:TRUTH]] on Wikipedia. There is only what [[WP:RS]]'s have to say which can be [[WP:V]]'ed. [[User:Tiamut|<b><font color="#B93B8F">T</font><font color="#800000">i</font><font color="#B93B8F">a</font><font color="#800000">m</font><font color="#B93B8F">u</font><font color="#800000">t</font></b>]]^{[[User_talk:Tiamut|talk]]} 20:05, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

::::"Please discuss on the article talk page. Not here."

::::You began a discussion. I responded. I had no idea I was not permitted to respond.

::::"This is not math, its about historical narratives, some of which are bound to conflict."

::::Am I to understand it that the statement "The 22nd Amendment to the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution limits African Americans to two terms as President" is no more than a mere "conflict of historical narratives"?

::::Is this truly how Wikipedia works? As a Black Man, the false racial implications of that statement would be nothing less than a mockery of the TRUE racism suffered by my ancestors. I can only imagine how a Jew must feel when reading such "conflicting narratives". [[User:AbdulHornochsmannn|AbdulHornochsmannn]] ([[User talk:AbdulHornochsmannn#top|talk]]) 23:23, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

:::::Please dn't put words in my mouth. In my first message to you here, I asked that you discuss any changes you would like to make to the article on ''the article talk page''. I stand by that request. You can reply all you want to, wherever you want to, to whatever you want to ... but if you would actually like to edit the article in question, it is best for you to discuss article related issues on the article talk page.

::::::I began a discussion to point you to the article talk page.

::::::About the rest, I don't know what you mean, and as its not related to article improvement, I'm done discussing. Thanks. [[User:Tiamut|<b><font color="#B93B8F">T</font><font color="#800000">i</font><font color="#B93B8F">a</font><font color="#800000">m</font><font color="#B93B8F">u</font><font color="#800000">t</font></b>]]^{[[User_talk:Tiamut|talk]]} 08:31, 29 October 2009

:::::::By all means! I have nothing to discuss with you either.

:::::::Please do not reply. [[User:AbdulHornochsmannn|AbdulHornochsmannn]] ([[User talk:AbdulHornochsmannn#top|talk]]) 15:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)