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Averting a potential edit war

After adding the new bit about Reprieve's allegations, I noticed that we've got a nascent edit war here. I thought it best to explain my own reasoning why I think this is worth including on this page.

The Peleliu has previously been in the news as a place where War on Terrorism detentions have taken place, in regards to Australia-related bits of it. This has occurred twice before -- note the two other incidents that were in the article already. Reprieve have released their report for public view, and say that they've they have a solid basis in research for their allegation. The US Navy, as they should quite properly do if they are being accused incorrectly, have denied that anything untoward has happened on board ship. A more specific quote from both sides is available in the newspaper article to which a reference has been added in the Wikipedia article.

It's my opinion that this is sufficiently newsworthy, and that Reprieve's allegations are not prima facie ridiculous. People will be coming here to check out the ship based on the news, and in the longer run anyone looking to learn about topics such as the role of extraordinary rendition in the fight against terrorism will likely run across Peleliu's name and may be interested to follow up on why these allegations have been made. A reference to those allegations, regardless of truth or falsity, needs to be made so that people can follow up on them if all they know about from elsewhere is a reference to the USS Peleliu itself and that's what they punch into the search box on Wikipedia's main page.

I feel sufficiently strongly about this that I'd like to put the issue to an admin's arbitration ASAP if someone disagrees with me equally strongly.

(Incidentally, I realize that there are some credibility issues on my part since I refuse to sign in while working on this edit and so this is all signed by an IP address. I'm willing to reveal my Wikipedia identity to an admin investigating this, however; I've got a multi-year history of content addition to the encyclopedia, including substantial amount of work on several Featured Articles, and I'm willing to demonstrate that to someone who can vouch for me to anyone else interested in this discussion) -- 64.228.218.185 (talk) 14:46, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 After adding the new bit about Reprieve's allegations, I noticed that we've got a nascent edit war here. I thought it best to explain my own reasoning why I think this is worth including on this page.
-The Peleliu has previously been in the news as a place where War on Terrorism detentions have taken place, in regards to Australia-related bits of it. This has occurred twice before -- note the two other incidents that were in the article already. Reprieve have released their report for public view, and say that they've researched they believe they have a solid basis in research for their allegation. The US Navy, as they should quite properly do if they are being accused incorrectly, have denied that anything untoward has happened on board ship. A more specific quote from both sides is available in the newspaper article to which a reference has been added in the Wikipedia article.
+The Peleliu has previously been in the news as a place where War on Terrorism detentions have taken place, in regards to Australia-related bits of it. This has occurred twice before -- note the two other incidents that were in the article already. Reprieve have released their report for public view, and say that they've they have a solid basis in research for their allegation. The US Navy, as they should quite properly do if they are being accused incorrectly, have denied that anything untoward has happened on board ship. A more specific quote from both sides is available in the newspaper article to which a reference has been added in the Wikipedia article.
 It's my opinion that this is sufficiently newsworthy, and that Reprieve's allegations are not '''prima facie''' ridiculous. People will be coming here to check out the ship based on the news, and in the longer run anyone looking to learn about topics such as the role of extraordinary rendition in the fight against terrorism will likely run across Peleliu's name and may be interested to follow up on why these allegations have been made. A reference to those allegations, regardless of truth or falsity, needs to be made so that people can follow up on them if all they know about from elsewhere is a reference to the USS Peleliu itself and that's what they punch into the search box on Wikipedia's main page.