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I am a journalist based in India, and a regular contributor to the Wikipedia, besides running Docuwallahs2. This is an important issue in our part of the world -- related to censorship of films, and it affects documentary films particularly strong. I believe Wikipedia should reflect the diversity of such global concerns. There is a significant movement "on the ground", even if this is not always as visible via cyberspace! -- FN --fredericknoronha 09:43, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Just to say thanks, this issue has been sorted out (below discussion from the Wikipedia-L list):
** Andrew Gray
      • On 07/01/07, Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org> wrote:

> Hi all, I'm from India, a contributor to the Wikipedia. In recent > times, the 'mortality' of new Wikipedia entries seems to be higher > than usual. While one can understand the need for abundant caution, > it's also important to allow for a diversity of concerns and issues in > this space. > > Should we presume that because an initiative is not very visible in > cyberspace (okay, we are under-digitised societies!) that it is not > prominent or noteworthy? See as one example: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikalp This is a campaign against > censorship of documentary film in India, one which has the > participation of about 250 documentary film-makers.

        • Bah. Untagged - no way an organisation of 250 professionals which runs a six-day film festival is "db-bio", even if all the internal links are red.....