Wikipedia:Working group on ethnic and cultural edit wars

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As part of the recent arbitration case on Palestine-Israel articles, a working group is being appointed to look freshly and with a completely open and wide remit at the kinds of nationalistic, ethnic or cultural based editorial conflicts which came to the fore in 2007, which often reflect deep feelings, advocacy, and unreconciled viewpoints in the real world. The aim of the group is to:

Gain a detailed understanding how such conflicts occur, and the structures and approaches administrators and experienced users face in trying to obtain stability, appropriate conduct, and a neutral point of view.
Generate ideas to cover different aspects of these.
Report their findings and conclusions within 6 months of appointment.

FT2 00:01, 23 January 2008 (UTC), for the Arbitration Committee.[reply]