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So, let's have the POV issues. I removed some non-verifiable items that call for me to trust summaries of TV news programs. I question the source of the "showed no remorse" claim. I removed speculation on penalties, since this is a political issue of little bearing here. I don't think Wikipedia is a place for pushing POV about the Belgian criminal justice system. I removed a pure POV claim about the failure to label this crime as racist, especially since it was little more than an opportunity to slag the RTBF. POV doesn't become non-POV by slapping a reference on it. --
Diderot07:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Racism tag: whether you like it or not, this sentence only states facts. It has even become a relevant social discussion, see the latest addition.
On who started the violence, in the intro: the lawyer does not deny that the youths kicked Demoor. I also let the lawyer quote look more like a quote than an established fact, and added the quite important note that, as far as we know, the suspect is the only one who gives this version of the facts.
Belien: of course Belien is POV, but that is not a problem for an external link.
Alright, I changed the word "Moroccan" to read "North African" since I strongly doubt anyone has looked up the immigration files of the parents or grandparents of anyone involved to see which country they immigrated from. I changed the wording about the RTBF to reflect that some person on the news said it, and not that the channel itself is necessarily making specific claims. I don't see that the public prosecutor has offered a reason for deciding not to class the case as manslaughter - I should think he has likely done so in response to some preliminary declaration of the cause of death and pending an autopsy, rather than due to media reports as is currently implied, but I'm willing to concede that that is a smaller issue. As such, I'm willing to let the article be in its current form pending new information. --
Diderot10:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Indeed, just about every Flemish news bulletin I've read or heard explicitly states Moroccan descent. But North African isn't wrong, so I won't insist.
165218613:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
That's a false-friend mistranslation. The English word "Moroccan" refers to people or things that have some connection to
Morocco. The Dutch word "Marokkaan" means brown people. Or at least, that's how it usually seems to be in usage, since the word is commonly used, both in the colloquial language and in the press, to refer to Turks, Arabs of any origin, light skinned black people, some Greeks, occasionally Sephardic Jews and even Polish gypsies. Considering the Joe Van Holsbeeck case, I think that off-hand mentions of ethnicity in the Flemish press should be treated as suspect. --
Diderot13:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
If we would follow your opinion, we shouldn't even mention the word "North African" as that was wrongly used in the Joe case. An important difference however is that in the Joe case there were only eyewitnesses and video surveillance which led (wrongly) to the conclusion it were North Africans. However once the police knew who they were, they knew they weren't North Africans, but Polish Roma's. Now that they have captured the criminals in the Guido case, they know who they are, and they know for sure what citizenship and ethnic origin they have. If we would mention it solely based on witnesses however it would be wrong.
Sijo Ripa13:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Sijo, the press almost certainly does not know what countries their parents or grandparents immigrated from. They may not know all their names since some of them are minors and therefore subject to press protection. It is very unlikely that the police have asked any of the suspects which countries their ancestors came from. I think it may be illegal for the police to ask a Belgian citizen about their ethnic origin - it is in France. My point is that the Flemish press uses the word "Moroccan" pretty flexibly and has lost a lot of credibility in its reporting of the ethnic origins of criminal suspects. I'd stick with North African, or even Maghrebi, simply because in my experience very few Belgians make any distinction between "Moroccan" and any other North African or even Middle Eastern origin. Until I see reporting that suggests the Flemish media has researched the backgrounds of the suspects, I would consider it most likely that the press is using the label the same way the average Fleming does. If I see that a reporter has talked to the kids' family or friends, and then tells me he's of Moroccan origin, then I am likely to believe it might actually refer to Morocco. I'd be willing to go with "apparently of North African decent" if you prefer, but while it may well prove true that all the suspects had some Moroccan ancestry, there is no way to be sure of that from the articles sourced. --
Diderot14:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
I recall explicit statements in the media saying that they were from Moroccan descent. Reference them, and they can be included.
Intangible14:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
The English word "Moroccan" refers to people or things that have some connection to
Morocco. The Dutch word "Marokkaan" means brown people. Or at least, that's how it usually seems to be in usage, since the word is commonly used, both in the colloquial language and in the press, to refer to Turks, Arabs of any origin, light skinned black people, some Greeks, occasionally Sephardic Jews and even Polish gypsies.
This is an incredibly racist statement against all Flemings, which makes me seriously doubt your good intentions with this article. Anyway, I added a reference, and if you do not accept that, the 'factual accuracy' tag goes on it. Remember
Wikipedia: No original research?
165218615:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Ah, I see I've touched a nerve. Good. Welcome to what Flanders looks like when you're an allochtoon. Words have meaning because of the way people use them, and that's exactly how the word "Marokkaan" gets used in Flanders. No different from the way Americans can't ever seem to work out that Guatemalans aren't Mexicans, except that their newspapers are little more careful about it than in Flanders. I didn't say that in the article, but I do think that some knowledge of the world, and the tendencies in it, should inform the degree to which a media claim is accepted as truth.
Seems to me Wikipedia also has a policy of "no personal attacks". You've flitted pretty close to the line there, buddy. And on racism, you are not one to talk.
As for their Moroccan origins, looks like HLN today has enough specific information to enjoy the benefit of the doubt in its reporting on their personal circumstances. I won't object to "Moroccan origin". --
Diderot16:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Thank you. And I didn't attack you, I attacked what you said. 'No personal attacks' doesn't mean that you can say anything you want about non-Wikipedians without being summoned.
165218617:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Vlaams Belang?
Why is the site of the Vlaams Belang included as a reference, I thought sources had to be objective. Also, can something be included on the version of the six suspects, who say Demoor attacked them first. --
Ganchelkas16:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Well including political reactions is not my cup of tea, but there seems to be no wikipedia consensus on this, see
Hans Van Themsche. But as such it is entered here, is see no further problem with referencing it to Vlaams Belang. The version of the the six suspects is already entered in the article, see the advocate's reaction in text.
I admit that this is quite unconventional, though it is to reference a fact that is mentioned nowhere else. I do trust the accuracy of facts that Vlaams Belang presents (though obviously their interpretation can be seen as POV), since it has never been proven otherwise, which I believe would happen immediately if they were found to be lying. The suspect version is already in the article, it's even longer than the conventional one.
165218618:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)reply
So, you presume that the Vlaams Belang speaks the truth until proven otherwise? Shouldn't you presume that the Vlaams Belang is wrong unless they prove the factual accuracy of what they say (which they rarely do BTW)? You should be critical about sources, especially those of political parties. Anyway, the main problem I have with the reference to the article on the site of the Vlaams Belang is that it is only vaguely related to the case of Guido Demoor. It says that the "problems" with "immigrant youths" are much greater than the government supposedly wants to make us believe. That's just propaganda and in no way is the information reliable.
And the bit on the "intimidation" by immigrant youths. I've read in reliable sources that their community was outraged by those slogans, but I didn't find anything on intimidation or riots, because the website of the Vlaams Belang speaks of "opstootjes" (small riots). --
Ganchelkas20:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)reply
I presume that if Vlaams Belang states something that can be factually proven wrong, many people would be glad to do so. And indeed, it's those small riots I'm referring to. If you want to replace intimidation by small riots, be my guest.
165218612:58, 1 July 2006 (UTC)reply
That's not what I meant, the only source stating there were "small riots" I found was the site of the Vlaams Belang, which is not at all a reliable source. --
Ganchelkas14:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)reply
"Total dispute"-tag
I have inserted the "total dispute"-tag. Acoording to the latest press coverage, the six youths had not much to do with Demoor's death. "If Demoor had missed his bus, and had had to run for it, he would have had an equal chance to have died." Demoor was the first to have used violence, and the authopsie hardly showed any violence from the boys on his body, and certainly not heavy enough to cause death.
What press coverage? Nothing in De Morgen, De Standaard or De Tijd...What is this Humo article all about? Who's talking in it? The youths? The lawyer of the youths? The medical examiner?
Intangible13:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Well, Humo is part of the press, you know. And being a weekly, it has more time to take some distance, to investigate deeper, and to uproot some facts that dailies don't have the time or the resources for.
The Humo article apparently is based on interviews with the boys' lawyers, which apparently were verified with the judicial file from the prosecutor's office, an interview with a "gerechtelijke bron" ("judicial source"), press clippings, the police reports and own research. Most of the Humo article already was published on the politics.be website. --
LucVerhelst14:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Well from the small piece I saw of the article, I cannot see how you could possible justify putting a "totally disputed" tag on this article, unless the standard has become that all Wikipedia articles should be written according to whatever is said in a Humo article.
Intangible14:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
You're so predictable.
I put the total dispute tag up, because
the factual accuracy of the article was compromised, since the new information -which contradicts most of what was published in the press the days following the incident- from the police investigations and the first and preliminary second coroner's report wasn't incorporated in it.
the article was strikingly unbalanced, depicting the youths of foreign descent as criminals, Guido Demoor as an innocent hero, creating an athmosphere bordering on racism, while in reality the youths may not have been choir boys, but certainly weren't criminals, and Demoor, alledgedly leaning towards the far right, caused much of the incident himself. The article was furthermore unbalanced, because it still depicted the youths as murderers, while it is now clear that what happened in the bus only very indirectly had an influence on the death of Demoor. In his condition, he might just as well have died in any other stressful situation.
Nice suggestion, but I don't think so. I have other things to do, apart from Wikipedia.
If you want to use this to declare the source illegitimate : sources "need not be online; availability through a library is sufficient." (
WP:RS). If you want to fight my sources, please go to a news stand or a library.
Please revert back. As per
WP:DR : "Be respectful to others and their points of view. This means primarily: Do not simply revert changes in a dispute. When someone makes an edit you consider biased or inaccurate, improve the edit, rather than reverting it."
I am not reverting, I am not sure how a Wikipedia editor can justify rewriting an article from scratch just by putting a disputed template at the start of the article. You should first have defended your disputed template before making those leaping edits. I just restored the article in order to have at least a basis for which a sane discussion can be held here.
Intangible15:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Check
WP:BOLD out, will you: "If someone writes an inferior article, a merely humorous article, an article stub, or outright patent nonsense, don't worry that editing it might hurt their feelings. Correct it, add to it, and, if it's total nonsense, replace it. That's the nature of a Wiki. Many new contributions are lost from the system with straight deletes but that loss adds to the sharpness of the medium. In time too much information will overwhelm the deleters and subtlety will be left in." Please revert back.--
LucVerhelst16:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
For the article, I suggest meditation. In the meanwhile, it should stay as Intangible restored it (with the tag added), since Luc started the edit war without rationale. As far as in reality the youths may not have been choir boys, but certainly weren't criminals, and Demoor, alledgedly leaning towards the far right, caused much of the incident himself is concerned, this pretty much summarizes everything I've tried to show about Belgium in the past few months: people who beat somebody up (resulting in death) are not criminals, but somebody who is attacked by foreigners must be, because the only lead can be that he was a racist. Nice going, this quote goes in my diary. I think this is even a better way to conclude my Wikipedia career than Sunday's.
165218615:46, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
- It certainly wasn't me who tried to start an edit war. I was just editing the article. My edits were plainly reverted, and I refrained from reverting them back. I prevented an edit war.
- "...everything I've tried to show about Belgium in the past few months..." : this actually summarises the problem : Wikipedia is not for show things about Belgium, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. If you want to convince people of something, please start a web log, or participate in a forum.
- "people who beat somebody up (resulting in death) are not criminals" : the facts as known at the moment are that Demoor was not "beaten up", but started a fight were he received some bruises, and that his death wasn't a result of the fight itself (that he started) but of his poor medical condition. --
LucVerhelst15:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Calmness please
This page has been protected as a result of edit-warring over differing depictions of events. Please, while remaining civil, enumerate specific changes you wish to see in the current text, together with citations for each change.
What news? See also
[2]. Your source is full of statements of the youths or their lawyers. Hardly neutral thus at this time in the procedure. Might I add that there are still people incarcerated here!
Intangible22:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)reply
I provided two, not one, sources, one from Humo, one from Politics.be.
My Humo source is a journalistic article, thoroughly checked by its author, based on interviews and written official documents.
The sources upon which the present article is based consist largely of loosely assembled quotes, hear-say and speculations. --
LucVerhelst09:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)reply
You should just wait until judicial procedures are over. No other media outlet in Belgium has found it necessary to react on the Humo or Politics.be piece. That says enough.
Intangible15:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)reply
It's a TV magazine, with a journalistic section and a media and entertainment section. It has quite a reputation for publishing journalistic articles and series that go a bit deeper than the other mainstream media.
As you well know. I have the impression that you are trying to misguide (english language) readers that don't know the situation. Are you ? --
LucVerhelst19:09, 20 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Though Humo perhaps isn't a neutral source, I don't think that this article reflects the current uncertainties about the involvement of the six youngsters. For example, the article still stresses too much that Demoor died because of the fight ( a fight that's barely a fight according to the authopsy and could even be considered self-defence), while several sources claim the heart-attack probably was caused by himself (in the sense that he worked himself up)--
Maraud20:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)reply
You don't happen to have other sources than those we already have in the article, do you ? They would be most welcome.
After doublechecking my sources, it seems they either refer to humo or non-verifiable sources (read: they're bs). But I still feel this isn't NPOV, as it has a distinctive anti-youngsters approach while their's and Demoor's involvement are very ambigious --
Maraud12:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)reply
I have asked
Xoloz to lift the protection on the page, in order to be able to implement the proposed changes, as of 22:00 tonight. Any objections ? --
LucVerhelst16:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)reply
Interesting note, the lawyer of the two youths still incarcerated stated that a causal relationship between the youths handling of Demoor en Demoor getting a hemorrhage can not be ruled out (De Standaard, Sep 30). This goes to show that one should not try to rewrite Wikipedia articles just based on what statements defense lawyers make.
Intangible23:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Sentence
A sentence of two years was handed down today for the youth who kicked Demoor.
[3] I put a POV tag to article, because it needs a major revision.
Intangible2.011:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Can someone please address this? I cannot read the source, but this seems like a routine update and is not a NPOV issue. -
RoyBoy17:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)reply
Actually look at the article history is POV tag, "Final court ruling" seems to have fixed the issue. Removing tag. -
RoyBoy17:15, 4 December 2011 (UTC)reply
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So, let's have the POV issues. I removed some non-verifiable items that call for me to trust summaries of TV news programs. I question the source of the "showed no remorse" claim. I removed speculation on penalties, since this is a political issue of little bearing here. I don't think Wikipedia is a place for pushing POV about the Belgian criminal justice system. I removed a pure POV claim about the failure to label this crime as racist, especially since it was little more than an opportunity to slag the RTBF. POV doesn't become non-POV by slapping a reference on it. --
Diderot07:29, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Racism tag: whether you like it or not, this sentence only states facts. It has even become a relevant social discussion, see the latest addition.
On who started the violence, in the intro: the lawyer does not deny that the youths kicked Demoor. I also let the lawyer quote look more like a quote than an established fact, and added the quite important note that, as far as we know, the suspect is the only one who gives this version of the facts.
Belien: of course Belien is POV, but that is not a problem for an external link.
Alright, I changed the word "Moroccan" to read "North African" since I strongly doubt anyone has looked up the immigration files of the parents or grandparents of anyone involved to see which country they immigrated from. I changed the wording about the RTBF to reflect that some person on the news said it, and not that the channel itself is necessarily making specific claims. I don't see that the public prosecutor has offered a reason for deciding not to class the case as manslaughter - I should think he has likely done so in response to some preliminary declaration of the cause of death and pending an autopsy, rather than due to media reports as is currently implied, but I'm willing to concede that that is a smaller issue. As such, I'm willing to let the article be in its current form pending new information. --
Diderot10:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Indeed, just about every Flemish news bulletin I've read or heard explicitly states Moroccan descent. But North African isn't wrong, so I won't insist.
165218613:02, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
That's a false-friend mistranslation. The English word "Moroccan" refers to people or things that have some connection to
Morocco. The Dutch word "Marokkaan" means brown people. Or at least, that's how it usually seems to be in usage, since the word is commonly used, both in the colloquial language and in the press, to refer to Turks, Arabs of any origin, light skinned black people, some Greeks, occasionally Sephardic Jews and even Polish gypsies. Considering the Joe Van Holsbeeck case, I think that off-hand mentions of ethnicity in the Flemish press should be treated as suspect. --
Diderot13:22, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
If we would follow your opinion, we shouldn't even mention the word "North African" as that was wrongly used in the Joe case. An important difference however is that in the Joe case there were only eyewitnesses and video surveillance which led (wrongly) to the conclusion it were North Africans. However once the police knew who they were, they knew they weren't North Africans, but Polish Roma's. Now that they have captured the criminals in the Guido case, they know who they are, and they know for sure what citizenship and ethnic origin they have. If we would mention it solely based on witnesses however it would be wrong.
Sijo Ripa13:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Sijo, the press almost certainly does not know what countries their parents or grandparents immigrated from. They may not know all their names since some of them are minors and therefore subject to press protection. It is very unlikely that the police have asked any of the suspects which countries their ancestors came from. I think it may be illegal for the police to ask a Belgian citizen about their ethnic origin - it is in France. My point is that the Flemish press uses the word "Moroccan" pretty flexibly and has lost a lot of credibility in its reporting of the ethnic origins of criminal suspects. I'd stick with North African, or even Maghrebi, simply because in my experience very few Belgians make any distinction between "Moroccan" and any other North African or even Middle Eastern origin. Until I see reporting that suggests the Flemish media has researched the backgrounds of the suspects, I would consider it most likely that the press is using the label the same way the average Fleming does. If I see that a reporter has talked to the kids' family or friends, and then tells me he's of Moroccan origin, then I am likely to believe it might actually refer to Morocco. I'd be willing to go with "apparently of North African decent" if you prefer, but while it may well prove true that all the suspects had some Moroccan ancestry, there is no way to be sure of that from the articles sourced. --
Diderot14:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
I recall explicit statements in the media saying that they were from Moroccan descent. Reference them, and they can be included.
Intangible14:38, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
The English word "Moroccan" refers to people or things that have some connection to
Morocco. The Dutch word "Marokkaan" means brown people. Or at least, that's how it usually seems to be in usage, since the word is commonly used, both in the colloquial language and in the press, to refer to Turks, Arabs of any origin, light skinned black people, some Greeks, occasionally Sephardic Jews and even Polish gypsies.
This is an incredibly racist statement against all Flemings, which makes me seriously doubt your good intentions with this article. Anyway, I added a reference, and if you do not accept that, the 'factual accuracy' tag goes on it. Remember
Wikipedia: No original research?
165218615:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Ah, I see I've touched a nerve. Good. Welcome to what Flanders looks like when you're an allochtoon. Words have meaning because of the way people use them, and that's exactly how the word "Marokkaan" gets used in Flanders. No different from the way Americans can't ever seem to work out that Guatemalans aren't Mexicans, except that their newspapers are little more careful about it than in Flanders. I didn't say that in the article, but I do think that some knowledge of the world, and the tendencies in it, should inform the degree to which a media claim is accepted as truth.
Seems to me Wikipedia also has a policy of "no personal attacks". You've flitted pretty close to the line there, buddy. And on racism, you are not one to talk.
As for their Moroccan origins, looks like HLN today has enough specific information to enjoy the benefit of the doubt in its reporting on their personal circumstances. I won't object to "Moroccan origin". --
Diderot16:34, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Thank you. And I didn't attack you, I attacked what you said. 'No personal attacks' doesn't mean that you can say anything you want about non-Wikipedians without being summoned.
165218617:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Vlaams Belang?
Why is the site of the Vlaams Belang included as a reference, I thought sources had to be objective. Also, can something be included on the version of the six suspects, who say Demoor attacked them first. --
Ganchelkas16:54, 30 June 2006 (UTC)reply
Well including political reactions is not my cup of tea, but there seems to be no wikipedia consensus on this, see
Hans Van Themsche. But as such it is entered here, is see no further problem with referencing it to Vlaams Belang. The version of the the six suspects is already entered in the article, see the advocate's reaction in text.
I admit that this is quite unconventional, though it is to reference a fact that is mentioned nowhere else. I do trust the accuracy of facts that Vlaams Belang presents (though obviously their interpretation can be seen as POV), since it has never been proven otherwise, which I believe would happen immediately if they were found to be lying. The suspect version is already in the article, it's even longer than the conventional one.
165218618:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)reply
So, you presume that the Vlaams Belang speaks the truth until proven otherwise? Shouldn't you presume that the Vlaams Belang is wrong unless they prove the factual accuracy of what they say (which they rarely do BTW)? You should be critical about sources, especially those of political parties. Anyway, the main problem I have with the reference to the article on the site of the Vlaams Belang is that it is only vaguely related to the case of Guido Demoor. It says that the "problems" with "immigrant youths" are much greater than the government supposedly wants to make us believe. That's just propaganda and in no way is the information reliable.
And the bit on the "intimidation" by immigrant youths. I've read in reliable sources that their community was outraged by those slogans, but I didn't find anything on intimidation or riots, because the website of the Vlaams Belang speaks of "opstootjes" (small riots). --
Ganchelkas20:44, 30 June 2006 (UTC)reply
I presume that if Vlaams Belang states something that can be factually proven wrong, many people would be glad to do so. And indeed, it's those small riots I'm referring to. If you want to replace intimidation by small riots, be my guest.
165218612:58, 1 July 2006 (UTC)reply
That's not what I meant, the only source stating there were "small riots" I found was the site of the Vlaams Belang, which is not at all a reliable source. --
Ganchelkas14:48, 1 July 2006 (UTC)reply
"Total dispute"-tag
I have inserted the "total dispute"-tag. Acoording to the latest press coverage, the six youths had not much to do with Demoor's death. "If Demoor had missed his bus, and had had to run for it, he would have had an equal chance to have died." Demoor was the first to have used violence, and the authopsie hardly showed any violence from the boys on his body, and certainly not heavy enough to cause death.
What press coverage? Nothing in De Morgen, De Standaard or De Tijd...What is this Humo article all about? Who's talking in it? The youths? The lawyer of the youths? The medical examiner?
Intangible13:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Well, Humo is part of the press, you know. And being a weekly, it has more time to take some distance, to investigate deeper, and to uproot some facts that dailies don't have the time or the resources for.
The Humo article apparently is based on interviews with the boys' lawyers, which apparently were verified with the judicial file from the prosecutor's office, an interview with a "gerechtelijke bron" ("judicial source"), press clippings, the police reports and own research. Most of the Humo article already was published on the politics.be website. --
LucVerhelst14:19, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Well from the small piece I saw of the article, I cannot see how you could possible justify putting a "totally disputed" tag on this article, unless the standard has become that all Wikipedia articles should be written according to whatever is said in a Humo article.
Intangible14:35, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
You're so predictable.
I put the total dispute tag up, because
the factual accuracy of the article was compromised, since the new information -which contradicts most of what was published in the press the days following the incident- from the police investigations and the first and preliminary second coroner's report wasn't incorporated in it.
the article was strikingly unbalanced, depicting the youths of foreign descent as criminals, Guido Demoor as an innocent hero, creating an athmosphere bordering on racism, while in reality the youths may not have been choir boys, but certainly weren't criminals, and Demoor, alledgedly leaning towards the far right, caused much of the incident himself. The article was furthermore unbalanced, because it still depicted the youths as murderers, while it is now clear that what happened in the bus only very indirectly had an influence on the death of Demoor. In his condition, he might just as well have died in any other stressful situation.
Nice suggestion, but I don't think so. I have other things to do, apart from Wikipedia.
If you want to use this to declare the source illegitimate : sources "need not be online; availability through a library is sufficient." (
WP:RS). If you want to fight my sources, please go to a news stand or a library.
Please revert back. As per
WP:DR : "Be respectful to others and their points of view. This means primarily: Do not simply revert changes in a dispute. When someone makes an edit you consider biased or inaccurate, improve the edit, rather than reverting it."
I am not reverting, I am not sure how a Wikipedia editor can justify rewriting an article from scratch just by putting a disputed template at the start of the article. You should first have defended your disputed template before making those leaping edits. I just restored the article in order to have at least a basis for which a sane discussion can be held here.
Intangible15:59, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Check
WP:BOLD out, will you: "If someone writes an inferior article, a merely humorous article, an article stub, or outright patent nonsense, don't worry that editing it might hurt their feelings. Correct it, add to it, and, if it's total nonsense, replace it. That's the nature of a Wiki. Many new contributions are lost from the system with straight deletes but that loss adds to the sharpness of the medium. In time too much information will overwhelm the deleters and subtlety will be left in." Please revert back.--
LucVerhelst16:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
For the article, I suggest meditation. In the meanwhile, it should stay as Intangible restored it (with the tag added), since Luc started the edit war without rationale. As far as in reality the youths may not have been choir boys, but certainly weren't criminals, and Demoor, alledgedly leaning towards the far right, caused much of the incident himself is concerned, this pretty much summarizes everything I've tried to show about Belgium in the past few months: people who beat somebody up (resulting in death) are not criminals, but somebody who is attacked by foreigners must be, because the only lead can be that he was a racist. Nice going, this quote goes in my diary. I think this is even a better way to conclude my Wikipedia career than Sunday's.
165218615:46, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
- It certainly wasn't me who tried to start an edit war. I was just editing the article. My edits were plainly reverted, and I refrained from reverting them back. I prevented an edit war.
- "...everything I've tried to show about Belgium in the past few months..." : this actually summarises the problem : Wikipedia is not for show things about Belgium, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. If you want to convince people of something, please start a web log, or participate in a forum.
- "people who beat somebody up (resulting in death) are not criminals" : the facts as known at the moment are that Demoor was not "beaten up", but started a fight were he received some bruises, and that his death wasn't a result of the fight itself (that he started) but of his poor medical condition. --
LucVerhelst15:55, 18 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Calmness please
This page has been protected as a result of edit-warring over differing depictions of events. Please, while remaining civil, enumerate specific changes you wish to see in the current text, together with citations for each change.
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[2]. Your source is full of statements of the youths or their lawyers. Hardly neutral thus at this time in the procedure. Might I add that there are still people incarcerated here!
Intangible22:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)reply
I provided two, not one, sources, one from Humo, one from Politics.be.
My Humo source is a journalistic article, thoroughly checked by its author, based on interviews and written official documents.
The sources upon which the present article is based consist largely of loosely assembled quotes, hear-say and speculations. --
LucVerhelst09:03, 20 July 2006 (UTC)reply
You should just wait until judicial procedures are over. No other media outlet in Belgium has found it necessary to react on the Humo or Politics.be piece. That says enough.
Intangible15:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)reply
It's a TV magazine, with a journalistic section and a media and entertainment section. It has quite a reputation for publishing journalistic articles and series that go a bit deeper than the other mainstream media.
As you well know. I have the impression that you are trying to misguide (english language) readers that don't know the situation. Are you ? --
LucVerhelst19:09, 20 July 2006 (UTC)reply
Though Humo perhaps isn't a neutral source, I don't think that this article reflects the current uncertainties about the involvement of the six youngsters. For example, the article still stresses too much that Demoor died because of the fight ( a fight that's barely a fight according to the authopsy and could even be considered self-defence), while several sources claim the heart-attack probably was caused by himself (in the sense that he worked himself up)--
Maraud20:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)reply
You don't happen to have other sources than those we already have in the article, do you ? They would be most welcome.
After doublechecking my sources, it seems they either refer to humo or non-verifiable sources (read: they're bs). But I still feel this isn't NPOV, as it has a distinctive anti-youngsters approach while their's and Demoor's involvement are very ambigious --
Maraud12:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)reply
I have asked
Xoloz to lift the protection on the page, in order to be able to implement the proposed changes, as of 22:00 tonight. Any objections ? --
LucVerhelst16:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)reply
Interesting note, the lawyer of the two youths still incarcerated stated that a causal relationship between the youths handling of Demoor en Demoor getting a hemorrhage can not be ruled out (De Standaard, Sep 30). This goes to show that one should not try to rewrite Wikipedia articles just based on what statements defense lawyers make.
Intangible23:36, 14 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Sentence
A sentence of two years was handed down today for the youth who kicked Demoor.
[3] I put a POV tag to article, because it needs a major revision.
Intangible2.011:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Can someone please address this? I cannot read the source, but this seems like a routine update and is not a NPOV issue. -
RoyBoy17:08, 4 December 2011 (UTC)reply
Actually look at the article history is POV tag, "Final court ruling" seems to have fixed the issue. Removing tag. -
RoyBoy17:15, 4 December 2011 (UTC)reply
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