Tom Parmenter wrote:
I say this in all seriousness: 172 is forcing us to look at aspects of totalitarian regimes that we might otherwise miss.
On the other hand, he apparently never saw a totalitarian regime he didn't like. Not a "leftist" one anyway.
Delightful. A general rule of thumb is that if people can tell where I'm coming from, I'm not writing NPOV.
And willfully and massively deleting other people's changes to "his" articles changes without notice or discussion is inexcusable. As is his rudeness to Zoe.
Yes, this is unacceptable.
I wonder if he is salvageable, given my first observation. Stalin did modernize Russia, and it's worth knowing, but only at the cost of millions of lives, also worth knowing, and more important. Ideally, someone like 172 says the first thing and someone like me says the second and we end up with an NPOV article. 172 rarely plays that way, however.
And even that way of playing is misdirected, I think. We should all try to write for both sides as much as we can, rather than "competing" away our biases. If you see what I mean.
And if someone won't even play *that way*, well, forget it.
Can someone persuade 172 to come chat here?