My Wikipedian emailer comes in with a new example of how Wikipedia works [everything below here is quoted]:

The article in question is Causes_of_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus

It started not bad. This is how the article looked two months ago: Link

...at that point the lefties and Islamists noticed it and they change it every day...a bit at a time.

How do they do it? In a sort of "democratic" and "academic" way. Example: Link

They take a vote - sounds nice. Should Finklestein be considered a source? The people who care to vote are 1 wikipedia editor who is Israeli/Jewish and tries to be neutral and fair -- his handle is GHCool -- he sets up the vote and votes: No.

Later, a few more vote they are:

A top propagandist, japabobo (professional or semi prof author who does Huge damage to Israel in Wikiepdia)
Tiamot - an Israeli Arab woman
Pedro - a far left person from Switzerland (forget about neutrality from him)
PR - an editor whose full name is "Palestine Remembered"
Alithein - a French lefty -- fights all the time against Israel
screen stalker - a canadian anarchist

Next they move to remove pro-Israeli sources and this way step by step the article becomes highly unbalanced: Link

At that point they are getting mild opposition form people who see the bias. So they set up another proposal: To Freeze the article in its current form and work on improving it until consensus is reached (will never happen).

This is how Wikipedia works: in slow motion.