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RfC closure at Talk:Jerusalem

With all due respect, this closure was a mistake. I know that consensus is more than a simple tally of !votes, but when determining consensus to change a long-standing status quo, if the numbers don't support the change, then the arguments need to be profound. This was clearly not the case here. I kindly ask that you please revert the closure and restore the images that you removed from the infobox against consensus. Thank you for your contributions to the project. GrammarDamner how are things? 05:18, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this at my talk page, GrammarDamner. What arguments provided by the supporters do you think I missed? What weaknesses in the opposers' arguments do you think I did not mention? I will not revert the closure if you aren't showing me why exactly my close was bad aside from a supposedly larger number of participants agreeing with (in my eyes) much weaker arguments. As it stands, I'm not convinced there is a need to amend, much less revert, my closure. — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. 11:30, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
All you've done is simply stated that you agreed with one side of the RfC. You said, including them would give legitimacy to one claim above another, this is absolutely false. The very idea that including something in an encyclopedia article gives legitimacy to its political claim is false. You said, Supporters of inclusion failed to advocate successfully against this argument, this is your opinion, and the majority of editors who participated in the RfC disagree with that opinion. I could go on and on, but the fact is that this RfC did not reach the level of consensus required to change a long-standing status quo. Obviously this is a touchy subject, so thank you for handling a task that we all know is not enjoyable. GrammarDamner how are things? 07:09, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
The full quote is Editors objecting to the inclusion of the flag and coat of arms in the infobox raised the point that including them would give legitimacy to one claim above another (namely, the Israeli over the Palestinian claim) in violation of both established consensus on the issue here on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Jerusalem) and our neutral point of view policy. When I said Supporters of inclusion failed to advocate successfully against this argument, I was referring to the policy and previous consensus argument. My closure was based on two things: firstly, what are the policies and guidelines/wide consensus discussions relevant to this discussion that would weigh on any closure. Supporters did not provide any strong PAG-based arguments and so I wrote they failed to advocate successfully. Secondly, if there is widely-supported and well-reasoned consensus to make an exception to PAG in the interest of encyclopedic coverage or to establish a new consensus on the issue. There was no strong consensus that the 2013 Jerusalem RFC did not reflect the reliable sources anymore or that there was any benefit to giving more weight to the Israeli claim.
You see the long-standing status quo as the presence of the flag and coat of arms, but I see the status quo as the impartial coverage of the Jerusalem territorial dispute between Israel and Palestine. Thus, while you see no strong consensus to overturn your status quo, neither do I see strong consensus to overturn mine. Consequently I don't think we'll convince each other on the closure issue. However, I will request a closure review at WP:AN per Wikipedia:Closing_discussions#Challenging_other_closures. I have the same interest as you do in making sure that closures in this topic area are well-reasoned and appropriate, so if AN has consensus I erred in my closure I'll be more than happy to revert it then. — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. 10:09, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, I appreciate you requesting a closure review. GrammarDamner how are things? 05:57, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Apologies to Ixtal, who, I suspect, would prefer for there not to be an outbreak of the Jerusalem symbols argument at his user talkpage, but since an AN discussion on the closure has been started, I hope that I'll be forgiven make a few observations here.
The arguments made for retention of the "status quo" were largely similar in nature to ones made for stating factually that Jerusalem is Israel's capital in the RFC on the article's introduction. They bypassed consideration of neutrality, arguing that the article should reflect reality and advanced partisan claims, such as that nations get to choose their own capitals. They failed to gain traction then.
Your own argument was largely based on taking one example, Taiwan, and claiming that its situation is "almost identical" to Jerusalem's: "One country claims a certain area, while another country controls it." I tried to demonstrate the falsity of that claim. You presented Taiwan as though it is an independent state encroached upon by the People's Republic. China is actually a country in which two regimes contend to be the legitimate rulers of the whole, each being in control of different areas. Until the early 1970s, the regime in Taiwan was widely seen as the proper successor of the Republic of China, instituted in 1912, and represented China on the UN Security Council. I presented other countries, arguing that their situation was similar to Taiwan's, which you rejected. As an example involving China which I felt was more appropriate, I mentioned Tibet, in which article there were arguments over the display of the flag of the People's Republic, with the depiction of that flag ultimately being removed. You dismissed Tibet as just a province of China, ignoring that it declared itself independent in 1913 and existed as such until 1951 when it was invaded by the People's Republic, a revolt being crushed in 1959. I also gave the example of Northern Ireland, in which article no flag is shown in the infobox. When the survey was closed, I was in the process of writing a rebuttal of your last comment.
Your objection to the closure decision mentions "status quo". I have been involved in the Jerusalem article since, probably, 2007 or 2008. I can't remember any discussion of the depictions of the flag or emblem in the infobox in that time. That would have been a minor sideshow compared to the overturning of the consensus which a group of like-minded individuals claimed to have established in 2003 (or thereabouts), that the article should state as fact, in the Introduction and infobox, that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. After ten years of arguments, that was finally overturned in 2013 when a formal RFC was held. I'd take a guess that, in 2013, the number of editors !voting to keep the original form of the article outnumbered those against. Yet, the decision went in favour of the latter. I can't remember any arguments being made that the original form had been the "status quo" so long that the reasons for altering it had to be far "profounder."
For me, retaining the symbols in the infobox, but labelling them to identify them as Israeli, was an acceptable option. Starting a discussion on doing that would be one way forward. Nobody argued in favour of removing the symbols from the article altogether, just not for displaying them as they were.
    ←   ZScarpia   12:18, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

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Reading too fast? Did you notice that your comment at Talk:Trans woman is nearly a duplicate of Loki's last sentence? If nobody has responded, WP:REDACT doesn't apply, and you could modify it (or even remove it) if you want to. Mathglot (talk) 05:22, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

I'll check it out later, thanks for the message, Mathglot. Hope you had a good weekend :) — Ixtal ( T / C ) ⁂ Non nobis solum. 06:15, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

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