Cdoebbler

Dear John Z I am quite disappointed by the revisions to my edits of the Legal assessments of the Gaza flotilla raid page. The errors are false positives that appear intentional, but moreover the editor reintroduced legal errors into the page that provide wrong and misleading information to readers. It is foolish revisions like this that prompt most law professors to discourage or prohibit use of the Wikipedia by students as I will now be forced to do. This is particularly disappointing as I am taking up a professorship in Makeni Sierra Leone next year where students don't have significant access to adequate materials that explain international law in simple form. Now they won't have Wikipedia either as we will prohibit their access because of the poor quality of your materials. I would be happy to help, with a group of law professors, to review the legal material on Wikipedia that relates to international law, but the way you handle international law right now is largely disappointing. Professor Curtis FJ Doebbler 09:33, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

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Well, (belated) welcome to Wikipedia! I guess I have the honor of welcoming you, though I see you've been editing for over a year and probably hardly need the above links. I just happened to be taking a look at one of your books a couple days ago. Particularly glad to see you joined the International Law project. I am taking a wild guess, but I presume you are Professor Doebbler and am very happy to see a real international law expert here. (And more so one who has a "POV" I think congenial to my own! :-) ).John Z 09:18, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

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Your edits on Legal_assessments_of_the_Gaza_flotilla_raid

I agree with you that the earlier version of the lead was quite misleading, and your version is an improvement in many respects. I had tinkered around with your edit a bit, removing some WP:OR, then LoveFerguson then finally reverted it entirely, (a decision which I don't agree with, but that is not relevant here). You have now restored your original edit. While you may or may not be an expert on the topic, please read WP:EXPERT. Wikipedia works by consensus, and experts have no more powers than non-experts here, though experts can of course add their perspective. Since I believe your edit was constructive, I will try to argue for adding a significant part of it. You are welcome to join the discussion on the talk page. Kingsindian ♝♚ 10:15, 12 August 2015 (UTC)