What this debate boils down to is what kind of atmosphere we want on
Wikipedia. Some people are arguing that we don't want an atmosphere of
censorship, and that's a valid point of course. My argument is that we
shouldn't want an atmosphere in which some people are being outed,
attacked, ridiculed, and having their families and their friend's
families contacted by lunatics. And when it does happen, Wikipedians
should stick together, no matter their editing differences, and should
make clear that it's totally unacceptable behavior.
There have been a couple of comments in this thread from people who
are coming very close to saying some people deserve to be outed and
attacked. It's a sad day to see that from anyone posting to this list.
Common sense and basic empathy need to guide us here, just as they do
over other BLP issues. This *is* a BLP issue, unless we're assuming
we're not really flesh and blood behind these keyboards.