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Purpose
Goals
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects relating to the Neutral coverage of the Sri Lankan Crisis
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of the ongoing ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
- To prevent large scale vandalism of LTTE and Sri Lankan government related articles and maintain the articles to convey a neutral perspective of the issue.
- To actively seek the cooperation of goodwilling people with different POVs as specified under membership.
proposed:
- To resolve conflicts between editors, e.g. by mediation and by providing specific guidelines for conflict resolution.
Sister projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Human Rights in Sri Lanka: Created by our member RaveenS.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject NCSLC: Apparently not active now.
Dreams, hopes, and visions
This section contains statements by individual members that summarize what each of us wants to achieve with this project. To help reconcile and fuse these into concrete goals, everybody is invited to discus these in the talk page section Dreams, hopes, and visions.
Sebastian's dream
Originally posted 24 January 2007
With this project, I want to create a firm middle ground. The middle ground is always despised by extremists of both sides, and it's so fragile! It's not that there are not enough people in the middle; it's just that they are so afraid - and rightly so: One wrong movement and you got all the extremists of one side against you. I've had baseless accusations thrown at me, and I don't want to think about what would have happened if I lived in Sri Lanka. Moreover, nobody can be exactly in the middle, because how would you define that anyway? On top of that, everybody wants to claim that they are in the middle, so people are very distrustful when they hear that. So, even honest, thoughtful people align themselves with one side, rather than the middle.
But there is hope. To see it, we all need a different mindset. Instead of staring fearfully at two estranged gangs, we need to raise our view to see and value courageous people. People who dare to break the box in which the extremists want to put them. People who do not just take pride in being Sinhalese or Tamil, but also in being openminded. If this ideal becomes our paradigm, then we, the middle, will find our own identity.
And it can work. We will gain strength through a virtuous cycle: We will help and encourage people who move towards the middle, and each person we help will strengthen us. We will accept real people, not our ideals of them. Not even the extremists are ideal extremists! Even a sockpuppeteer or a POV fighter can have moments when he feels some sympathy for the other side. What happens now, when someone shows these feelings? His own "friends" will call him a traitor! He needs real friends! People who see the good in him, and help him. We will be a group of knights who help those in need, and who take pride in doing so. I want the membership in this group to become a badge of honor. That is my mission. — Sebastian
Taprobanus's hope
Originally posted 1 February 2007
This project [...] is a hope that people can reconcile even in the midst of a bloody carnage. I am a living witness to all dead bodies around me when I was a child, my wife even today cannot watch war movies because it brings back memories of indiscriminate bombing of Jaffna peninsula. This is simply one sided of the story. It took me a long time to come to conclusion about the futility of it all but if some one is somewhere on that same long path but has not reached the conclusion yet but still wants to chat to see whether his/her beliefs and doubts can be reconciled that person should be given 1000% chance. [...]
The more I think about it in reality this forum or club’s primary (but unstated) goal is to function as a place to acclimatize emotionally charged new Sri Lanka centric Wikipedians about following Wikipedia rules. Most who have been around 6 months or are no longer overtly partisan or overtly disruptive even if they harbor malicious feelings about each other. That is a good equilibrium to achieve. All what this forum can do is to point such emotionally charged editors that hey look what we have achieved why don’t you try it ? If we are perssitant, they will and may be become members too. Taprobanus 14:06, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
Members
The group welcomes editors with different POVs, but members have to prove their willingness for non-aggressive conversation. This excludes members who have recently engaged in edit wars or sockpuppeteering.
To apply for membership, please apply in the member section of the talk page. Members may have questions or concerns regarding your application. Please indicate if you prefer them to be discussed by e-mail.
Members are encouraged, but not required to follow conflict-reducing principles or practices, such as WP:1RR. If a member decides to pledge such a principle or practice, he or she can list it under "Pledges".
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{- GuidelinesThis chapter contains drafts for guidelines we would like to agree on in the project. Cool editing
How to avoid a revert warHere's a list of what you can do when you see some edit that you feel you need to revert:
How to convince people in the middleIn discussions on the talk page, you can type till your fingers bleed, but you can't force the opposing extremists to accept your POV. However, if you write smartly, you can sway the people in the middle. Many people who feel strongly about an issue just let their anger be their guide. While this may sometimes work by intimidating others so that they stay clear of an issue, it more often backfires: It usually only scares away the moderate people, while extremists of the other camp, who love this sort of personal fights, join the debate. Thus, the issue you wanted to bring across gets drowned out by mutual accusations. Few Wikipedians want to read this; most switch to another page when they sense more anger than reason. A better way is to write with the moderate person in mind. Think about how you can make your discussion contribution interesting to the average Wikipedian. As soon as you convince a few reasonable Wikipedians, your cause is winning. Classification of sourcesThe purpose of this classification is to provide a guideline for mediation. In content disputes and edit wars, the mediator will, as a first approximation, revert to the version, or create a version that is based on this list. In the absence of other reasons for or against certain passages the first approximation version is defined by all and only those texts that are RS or explicitly attributed QS. MotivationSection WP:NPOV#A simple formulation recommends: "Alternatively: assert facts, including facts about opinions — but do not assert the opinions themselves." (bold in original.) Most sources that have been used for Sri Lanka conflict related articles do not fulfill WP:RS, the official criterium for reliable sources. This is because there are few independent reporters in the country. According to official Wikipedia policy, we therefore would not be able to write much about the conflict. Since this has been regarded as unsatisfactory by both sides, we therefore introduced an intermediate classification "QS" for sources that are biased or partial, but still may contain valid information. Such sources may be used with certain limitations - see below. Above all, they need to be clearly marked as the opinion of that source. Classes of sources
List of sourcesThis list is the result of discussions in the Classification of sources section of the talk page. Before adding any source here, please create a new section for the source there and provide some arguments regarding its reliability. Redlinks here don't necessarily mean that an article should be created, it only indicates that we don't have one. The column "attribution" displays how we recommend the source should be qualified in the text. Where a reliable source makes an attribution, it is added in the "Ref" column.
|- | [[]] | [http://www. ] | UnclasS | | Other activitiesSri Lanka Reconciliation BarnstarThe group awards a special barnstar to editors who have shown a serious effort to decrease the conflict on Sri Lanka related articles. Such awards have to be by consensus among members.
List of Recipients
ToolsProject BannerThe {{Banner WPSLR}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. The template does not require any additional parameters. If you add this banner to an article, please also include that article in watchall so it will show up in our watchlist.
Userbox for the membersThe WikiProject User Box: {{User WPSLR}}
Welcome message for new usersThe template {{Welcome SLR}} is designed to welcome new users who showed an interest in Sri Lanka. Please use it whenever you spot a new user - it guides them to our project and it makes Wikipedia a friendlier place overall! Example: This code: ==Welcome!== {{subst:Welcome SLR|name=Amda|~~~~}} creates the text in the following box: Welcome! Hello Amda, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our Introduction contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need general help, check out Wikipedia:Questions or place Happy editing! — Sebastian 21:06, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Invitiation for experienced usersThe same template now can also be used for experienced users. Enter something like the following: ==WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation== {{subst:Welcome SLR|~~~~|intro=-}} Watchlists
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