On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Conrad Dunkerson wrote:
Your 'common sense' contradicts my observed reality... both before and after the event.
It is 'common sense' that we indefinitely block people for saying they are pedophiles? It is 'common sense' that any such statements are forcibly removed?
Er, no. It's not. We don't. One admin did, it made a giant shit-storm of controversy. The 1-week block of Joeyramoney (the user who was originally blocked) by Jimbo (for trolling, not for saying e was a pedophile) was removed, when people calmed down, and was not supported by the ArbCom. See the decision at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/ Pedophilia_userbox_wheel_war - it does not ask that Joeyramoney be blocked, either permanently or temporarily. No other username has been blocked for saying they are pedophiles. If you can show me some "observed reality" that contradicts this, please do.
As for removing, "any such statements", that's bound up in the ongoing userbox mess - AFAIK (I may be wrong about this), we haven't, and we don't, remove textual statements by a user saying e is a pedophile. At various times, userboxes expressing this have been removed, or argued about, or deleted, or recreated - I claim this falls under the ongoing userbox mess, not anything specific to pedophiles, or pedophiles on Wikipedia.
Jesse Weinstein