Talk:Jan Żaryn

BLP vio

This [1] edit attempts to turn the article into an attack page. From the sources given the only one which comes close to being RS is Polityka [2] and even that is an opinion piece which is not suitable for a BLP (main difference is that article manages to avoid the hysterics that others do). But even that doesn't say what is being claimed in the text. Furthermore that source does in fact have some notable and pertinent information about the subject - such that his family rescued Jews during the war and were recognized as Righteous Among Nations, or that his mother was arrested by the Nazis but released with intervention of the same Wehrmacht officer who saved The Pianist - but that is completely ignored. These are straight up POV edits and they violate our policies. Volunteer Marek 20:31, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

These are excellent sources, including oko.press. Commentary covers some of this in English, [3] (free copy: [4]), stating that Żaryn pushed the myth of "Jewish participation in the mass extermination of Poles."V.A. Obadiah (talk) 06:21, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

I suggest you ask for the review of this addition at WP:BLPN. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 07:52, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Volunteer Marek, I don't think this is a BLP vio. Attack pages are "Pages that are unsourced and negative in tone", and that part was well sourced with at least 2 RS, Gazeta Wyborcza and Oko.press, that were already defined "Reliable".[5] If you want to add what happened with the family of this man, it is good, but has nothing to do with his statements section. And I'd like to point out that the only reason this guy is known internationally is because of his pro-nationalists attitude,[6][7] it would be strange to omit those informations. Balance: "Criticism and praise should be included if they can be sourced to reliable secondary sources, so long as the material is presented responsibly, conservatively, and in a disinterested tone", so where is the "balance"?--Mhorg (talk) 11:17, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

BLP requires better sources than hit pieces in tabloids or websites that are ideologically opposed to the subject (and no, these sources were not “defined as reliable”). I don’t like the guy myself but you just can’t use his Wikipedia article to attack him. There’s nothing in there even close to a “disinterested tone” (aside from the Polityka source). And once again, you’re posting things like opendemocracy, which is simply not RS. Volunteer Marek 11:37, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Volunteer Marek, please, why are you avoiding the counting for the reliability of these sources? I also made a recap in another thread, could you answer?[8] About "opendemocracy", I didn't use it on this article, I was only showing that international media talk about this guy just for his pro-nationalist attitude. About the BLP rule, the need of "disinterested tone" is referred to the text in the article, not to the text in the sources. And yes, that text was neutral, and, for each criticism, the subject who made it is reported: "Numerous statements by Jan Żaryn have been recognized by journalists of Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka and NaTemat.pl as nationalist, anti-Semitic, chauvinistic and historically false. He attributes the responsibility to the Germans for provoking Poles to commit the pogrom in Jedwabne. He praised the activities of the pre-war fascist organisation National-Radical Camp (ONR). A journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, Paweł Smoleński, regarding Jan Żaryn, said: "A man who happens to whitewash Polish fascism under the sign of ONR and NSZ.". I would like to point out that these statements are present also on the article in Polish.[9]--Mhorg (talk) 12:27, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Dude. What does this sentence even mean: "Numerous statements by Jan Żaryn have been recognized by journalists of Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka and NaTemat.pl as nationalist, anti-Semitic, chauvinistic and historically false"???? "recognized"??? What? Huh? All these are opinion pieces and they're either not reliable (NT) or they don't say what this text claims. Volunteer Marek 15:38, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Insofar as we're discussing a politician then seven mainstream newspapers and magazines should be enough, though we should quote and attribute everything. François Robere (talk) 13:29, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

There is no "seven mainstream newspapers and magazines" here and that's putting aside that some of the sources being included don't actually say what the text claims. Volunteer Marek 15:37, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

And really, the whole question of reliability is 100% irrelevant as simply none of these sources support the text that is being inserted. This is pretty close to being sanctionable disruptive editing by Mhorg as it's a straight up misrepresentation of sources. Volunteer Marek 15:45, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Furthermore, Mhorg, it's pretty clear from this comment you left at FR's talk page (an indirect form of WP:CANVASS) that you don't even have access to some of these sources, hence you have not even read them. Why are you putting in BLP VIOs into the article based on sources you haven't read? Volunteer Marek 15:47, 27 April 2021 (UTC)