Misplaced Pages

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Full history references

• Nadine Gordimer starting 2006/10/29
• Talk:Nadine Gordimer history starting 2006/11/18 (diff of first relevant posting)

• 70.23.177.216 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ... (diff of first posting)
• 70.23.199.239 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) ... Talk edit history starts 12/19 with message from Lquilter

Nadine Gordimer dispute

Prehistory of edit war

• Michaelbarreto adds incident sans race to Nadine Gordimer article 10/29 (diff)
• 85.192.17.13 adds race & the Times cite to Nadine Gordimer article 10/29 (diff)
• Gfourie removes race 10/30
• 67.189.105.50 adds race and wedding ring detail 10/31
• 24.5.85.249 copy-editing incident 11/5
• removing race; adding in Gordimer's response 11/7

Edits, reverts, and talk page

• DianaW (as 70.20.170.99) removed incident altogether 11/18 and raised it on the talk page (diff
• 70.23.*/Nicholas Stix (then 70.23.177.216) adds incident, with race, without Gordimer's comment, and adding in "grim irony" 11/30 04:17
• DianaW brought it up on the Nadine Gordimer talk page again, noted POV, and invited way to write report neutrally without ugly racial overtones ; and edited own comment 11/30 23:29 and reposted very polite message on 70.23.*'s page] (diff) (11/30 23:30)
• Lquilter agrees on talk page that the material is not notable and was being written to make a subtle racist claim 12/1 01:10

• 70.23.* responds on talk page at length; first calls Lquilter & DianaW censors; alleges that DianaW "seems to hate whites, and imposes her hatred on articles by promoting the casting of whites in the worst light possible, while suppressing, based on race alone, any factual reporting (forget about opinion) that casts blacks as anything but the victims of whites. If that isn't racist, I don't know what is." Notes that DianaW insinuated that 70.23.* was racist. Talks about censor's allies. Criticizes Misplaced Pages NPOV. (diff)

• DianaW responds heatedly on talk page, including "There is no possible reason to add this material here that is not racist." 12/1 02:45
• Lquilter responds on talk page 12/1, 03:22, and points out not notable; POV of irony comment; suggests the sorts of things that would make incident or race notable

• 12/4 NPOV tag

• RFC