User talk:Ezra

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Welcome to Wikipedia! Your articles and edits are very helpful and appropriate; keep up the good work! Feel free to drop me a message at the "talk" link beside my name. --Merovingian ↕ Talk 07:30, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

You're very welcome. Many of us regular users try hard to make beginners feel at home. --Merovingian ↕ Talk 17:07, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Moloch

Older translations render the name of the god "Sakkuth" and "Kaiwan", both associated with the planet Saturn as is the star mentioned in the Biblical references below. Maybe you'd identify the "older" translations and make their association with Baal and Baal's association with Saturn clear. (I see it repeated from website to website but never any reason for this "association".) Wetman 23:32, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Ezra, at Wikipedia we adhere closely to the principle of No Point of View, which means that, for example, we do not blatantly accuse people of things that are the subject of hotly contentious historical disputes. Rather, we state what each side believes and the facts that we know to be true, and let the reader draw his or her own conclusion. Furthermore, it would be nice if you would explain how Molotov and Kaganovich in particular were involved in engineering the famine. Everyking 00:33, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

That's it? They were high up in the system, so they were responsible? I don't want to revert your edits to my versions, but I'm having a hard time thinking of any other way to NPOV them. Can you propose a compromise of some sort? Everyking 01:05, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

OK, you cite all this stuff as coming from Conquest instead of stating it as simple fact, and I will be happy to accept it. I would also appreciate it if you would summarize what Conquest so thoroughly documented. What if the Joseph Stalin article was nothing but the line "He was a mass-murdering thug." What would you think of Wikipedia if you saw that? By the same logic, you need to provide some degree of detail and sources for the claims you have included in the article. I welcome any additions to an article if the additions are NPOV and verifiable. Everyking 01:20, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)