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'Anti-Habsburg defamation online' = breaches against 'The Online Defamation Law'

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Summary by MarkAHershberger

Not the right forum for this.

DougieLionheart (talkcontribs)

Hello, dear Wikipedia team...

I happened to have noticed that people seem to spread 'anti-Habsburg propaganda' into Wikipedia that happened to originate from the German/Austrian-Hungarian period post 1914 - 1945, when national socialism and anti-semitism was on the rise - by simply spreading unverified 'libel'. There has been historic attempts to 'erase' or 'vilify' the descendants of the Habsburg lineage (see 'Habsburg Law' April 1914, only in the 80ies being admitted of having been 'inhumane' as 'human rights infringing'. But now some people are passing this 'historic vile' that originated post 1914 into the Nazi regime onto online. By copying without common sense nor critical thinking from 'historic sources' of this 'delicate period' that has been highly 'manipulated' by two war machineries and ideologies.

When I try to put an 'historical spin doctor alert' on these pages I happen to notice, that your Clue Bot Ng sends me automatic messages.

This is the problem of 'open source' and statements been blindly copied. Historical propaganda wrongfully enters now the online domain - so that this malevolent spin repeats itself AGAIN.

What's wikipedia's stance to this? Do you want to repeat the 'pre-era' that led us into WW2 by helping to spread such wrong historical propaganda?

Is that the ethically right thing to do, to post untruth about people that once have shaped European history?

As being one of those people having donated to you repeatedly to keep this site up and running, may I now object such unnoble conduct for being against the 'Online Defamation Law'??

Warmest regards,

Dougie Lionheart

88.130.123.213 (talkcontribs)

Hi Dougie,

this page is the MediaWiki support desk. It is made for technical help with the MediaWiki software, the software used to run wikis like Wikipedia. We are however not responsible for nor could we change any content in any Wikmedia Foundation wiki.

I propose you check the policies of the according Wikipedia language to see, what sources are regarded as being reliable and to see what the process in case of false-information or contradicting information is.

88.130.123.213 (talkcontribs)

I have now checked your contributions. The actions of ClueBot were correct.

Edits like this one are infact not what is wanted for Wikipedia. It does not become clear, what you in fact want to change. It does not become clear, which detail you believe would be wrong. That way this is only vandalism.

A good contribution is based on reliable sources, which prove that what the contributions claims, is right. Since you have already been warned three times by now, I strongly recommend to first post on a discussion page, before you edit an article. With another bad article edit, you risk becoming blocked.