By a majority of 47 editors against 35 who objected, this morning (Tuesday) the entry on the fall of Barel Hadaria Shmueli was removed from Wikipedia, this is because it is not an encyclopedic entry, and that Wikipedia does not usually add value to every soldier killed.
It was reported yesterday that a discussion is taking place on Wikipedia about whether to leave in the digital encyclopedia the entry written about Border Patrol fighter Barel Hadaria Shmueli, who was killed on the Gaza Strip border last August. Him, including the protest of the opening fire regulations and the political confrontation that accompanied him.
The entry was uploaded to Wikipedia on December 18, and a week ago entered the list of entries to be deleted, which caused a stir among both the editors and social media. "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a memorial site, and this gap is extremely important. It is not possible to write about any soldier or civilian killed in this or that operation. Leaving this entry is a material injury to all those who received no value," wrote one editorial at last week's Wikipedia discussion. "The event was inflated beyond all proportion. It is very unfortunate that a soldier was killed, but unfortunately he was preceded by many thousands more in Israel. There is no justification for dragging Wikipedia to inflate this event," wrote another editor.
Other editors have argued that this is an event that is bigger than the fall of Barel Shmueli, but deals with a protest that accompanied it.
"The value is on a broader issue than Barel Shmueli himself," wrote an editor known as "Magma" but was told that if the value is on a broader issue, it should not be burdened on the back of the late Barel Shmueli.
You can write an entry about soldiers' protests, heads on social media, tying by fighters or whatever comes to mind. "
One of the editors expressed regret that the entry was written, and also that there was a discussion of importance on the issue of entry.
"It had to be deleted immediately. Worse we were required to vote for this deletion. I think there is no choice, the entry must be deleted so as not to discriminate between blood and blood."
According to Wikipedia's policy, senior editors participated in the vote.
In order to delete an entry, a majority of 55 percent or more is needed, when in the end this majority was in favor of deleting the entry - and this morning it was deleted from the online encyclopedia.
Barel's sister, Hila Rahimi, reacted with disappointment to the decision.
"I thought it could not be more painful.
Since Barel was killed I have experienced, we have experienced the whole family, pain in every organ in the body, like a fire. "Who was willing to die for the state. Is there a more national symbol than that? Is there more certainty than that? Is it more true that Barel's values, evil, courage, sacrifice will reach every boy and girl?"
"The body is tired of wars, the mind can no longer fight. We are gathered in our deep mourning, a terrible feeling that we live with every day, every minute. Barel was taken from us. We were erased. I do not know who makes these decisions, but who voted to erase his memory "The only thing left for us to know was that he spat in our faces."
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