Re: [Cz-L] Dr. Popovici and Wikipedia

Dear Shellie,

According to Dr. Radu Ioanid of the Holocaust Museum Washington DC
who is the authority on the Holocaust in Romania, Popovici saved
temporarily 19600 Jews from being deported, many of these were later
deported in the summer of 1942.

Mimi Quoting Shellie Wiener <s_wiener_at_yahoo.com>:

> Hi, everyone,
>
> I make edits to Wikipedia all the time and would be happy to
> incorporate any corrections that members of this group would agree to.
>
> The difficulty is that this must be factual and if possible,
> footnoted, because opinions are not to be included in Wikipedia
> articles. I usually update links, addresses of institutions, etc.
> and make grammatical corrections and the sort - all facts, all
> verifiable. Subjective items - i.e. the number of Czernowitzers
> saved [as has been debated here time & again] cannot be posted as an
> absolute.
>
> Especially with Holocaust-related items, Wikipedia has great
> sensitivity and [for instance] blocks the editing of any article that
> Holocaust-deniers have tried to edit. So, I, too, might be blocked
> but we could appeal to a higher level of Wikipedia editor.
>
> Let's make a try, then. It's important to right any errors or
> omissions before they become accepted historical fact.
> Shellie
>
> Shellie Wiener
> San Francisco, California
> - - - - - -
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Renee Steinig genmaven_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> We've spoken many times here about Dr. Popovici's role in saving
> Czernowitz's Jews. One place where Dr. Popovici's deeds are not
> mentioned is in the article on Chernivtsi on the popular website
> Wikipedia. Google Czernowitz and the Wikipedia article
> (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi>) is near the top of the
> computer screen, making it one of the first sites someone researching
> Czernowitz will turn to. The Wikipedia article speaks of the role of
> Theodor Criveanu but has no mention of Dr. Popovici. Dr. Popovici is,
> however, acknowledged in the Wikipedia article "List of People from
> Chernivtsi"
> (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Chernivtsi>) and
> in an article about him at
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Popovici>
> .
>
> Perhaps someone out there with experience in making Wikipedia edits
> would like to add to the Chernivtsi page a reference to Dr.
> Popovici's good deeds, with a link to his Wikipedia biography. Even
> better would be if someone were willing to take comments from the
> group on the entire Chernivtsi article and make all changes deemed
> necessary.
>
> Renee
>
> Renee Stern Steinig
> Dix Hills, New York, USA
> genmaven_at_gmail.com (Now my preferred email address.)

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