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Suggestion of guidelines for a neutralization of articles related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
[edit]This is only an additional proposal to the general policy of the Neutral Point of View
- An article should contain in general more facts than views, so that the reader has the possibility to interprete the presented views for himself with actual knowledge of the facts.
- Concurring views, e. i. "the" Arab and "the" Israeli side, should be given in general equal space. In existing articles where one side is grossly overrepresented the whole viewpart should be moved to the related talkpage until an equilibrium is reached.
- Writers should keep in mind, that there is no "Israeli view" and no "Arab view". Try to attribute as detailed as possible, f.e. "Israeli settlers", "Palestinian islamist groups". Views attributed to "some Israelis", "almost all Palestinians" should be based on statistics.
- Use strong words like "terror", "assasinated" with great care. Writing in one case of "assassination" where you use for the other side just a "killing" means already unconsciously taking party for one side and subtly influencing the reader. If you want to write "and terrorized the..." better describe precisely the actions that constituted the "terror".
- Never try in your article to charge up deads/injured/terrible actions of one side against the deads/injured/terrible actions of the other side.
- (to be continued)
Question: what is the English equivalent to the German noun "Schwarzweißmalerei"?