What I find reading these paragraphs is a decidedly proZayed bias To assume that anyone who criticizes him in that article must have never went near the Middle East or the UAE is preposterous My own contributions as well as others are based on travel and life in the UAE as well as trustworthy sources like the BBC and Reuters among others Also that he funded all those wonderful projects around the world is not in dispute To say that it was from his own pocket however is ludicrous As with all the rich Gulf leaders their personal wealth CAME from the nations oil wealth Their checkbooks and the State Treasury were often indistinguishable Nevertheless Zayed could have easily chosen to horde the UAEs wealth only for Emiratis but he didnt and that is evident As far as the propaganda pictures and TV footage Falcon refers to I have seen it with my own eyes It does not negate what he did but its important to edify readers that Media in the UAE is strictly controlled and cultworship of the ruling families was institutionalized Again this does not mean that Zayed was not genuinely liked and admired but it is important to state all the facts The simple fact is that there was not one jot of criticism allowed on the airwaves or in print This is no great slur on Zayed or the UAE The only  relatively lively and free presses in the Arab world are Lebanon Egypt and prewar Kuwait Qatar is just now experimenting with free media Regardless what is more evidence of a proZayed bias then the systematic removal of every scrap of criticism from the article Why do certain individuals not want the world to know that one of his weddings is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the most expensive ever Why are they afraid to let people know that Zayeds election to the Presidency was by a mere group of  sheiks and not by a free and popular vote All these facts were shamelessly deleted several times from the article THAT is what I call bias Also you quoted one of his advisors It is not very shocking that such a person would be overflowing with praise about his employer and benefactor I do not consider that an objective source That doesnt mean it cannot be mentioned As long as it is made clear who said it the readers can draw their own conclusions about the possible bias of the quotation  Perhaps you should include that quotation in the article Falcon Also regarding the Zayed Center that was not my contribution but I find it very interesting What you mentioned about it in this talk section is very important I look forward to you expanding on how he founded the center and why he became disenchanted with it and withdrew his support  Oh incidentally it would be a great help if you and all contributors made use of the edit summary section so that the rest of us can more efficiently keep track of who addeddeleted what and for what reason Thanks