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