On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Sascha Noyes wrote:
Hi. I'm not happy that it had to come to this. Mr-Natural-health has repeatedly been warned numerous times about not making personal attacks on other wikipedians. I am requesting a ban for this user on the grounds that he is not abating with said attacks.
I have documented clear violations of basic wikipedia policies by this user on http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Snoyes/sandbox
I've taken a look at these, & while MNH's behavor is not exemplary, I don't see any smoking gun that justifies banning.
Two of the people MNH has exchanged barbs with -- RK & Adam -- haven't been models of restraint themselves, making a few attacks on MNH themselves. His response to Teresa Knox does appear unjustified, though, & I would like better proof that he was the person acting from those IP addresses.
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(...) At another time he has made an implicit threat to RK on his talk page by stating "The German Nazi from New York. I am proud of my German heritage, how about you?".
I'm not clear how identifying one's home location is a threat. And having read quite a few emails on this mailling list from RK where he accuses people of being a Nazi for disagreeing with him, I read this as a sardonic descriptioin.
all documented at the above url. My question: are we only paying lip service to the policy of not making personal attacks (and implicit threats), or shall this policy be enforced?
As an endnote, it must be stated that MNH has not just personally [attacked] RK, but numerous others as well.
I've seen a fair number of people called "kooks", "zanies", etc. here on Wikipedia, & I was unaware that was not approved behavior. (After reading Sacha's article, I followed the link to find a forum on Meta from a few months ago about this very matter, which I somehow missed.) If a contributor to Wiki can get banned for certain behavior, then these terms should be made clear somewhere on Wiki, & not merely discussed on Yet Another Meta Page.
Geoff
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