wikipedia talk page on wikipedia the purpose of a talk page is to help to improve the contents of the main page from an encyclopedic point of view questions challenges excised text due to truly egregious confusion or bias for example arguments relevant to changing the text and commentary on the main page are all fair play wikipedia is not a soapbox it's an encyclopedia in other words talk about the article not about the subject tab archive rather than delete when a talk page's content has become extremely large or the discussion of the issue in hand has simply died down and no one has a reasonable chance of adding to it then create a new page wikipedia what wikipedia is not wikipedia is not a theater of war every user is expected to interact with others civilly calmly and in a spirit of cooperation do not insult harass or intimidate those with whom you have a disagreement rather approach the matter in an intelligent manner and engage in polite discussion wikipedia is not propaganda or advocacy of any kind but of course an article can report objectively about such things as long as an attempt is made to approach a neutral point of view unicef said today it is deeply concerned about the impact on children of the ongoing military operation in the gaza strip particularly a missile strike wednesday that claimed the lives of at least palestinians many of them children unicef calls on the state of israel to abide by its obligations to the convention on the rights of the child by protecting children from direct exposure to violence and providing those who have lost their homes with alternative housing bassiouni said the injudicious use of force where children are present can only bring about the deaths of innocent youngsters we urge the israeli authorities to reconsider the impact these incursions are having on palestinian children dec utc