Plus, they might be right... Mark
--- Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
One of the problems is that you run into these folks while editing in an area that you are interested in and probably have a point of view about yourself. That puts you in a poor position to be banning them.
Fred
From: Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:42:55 -0700 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia on Volokh
Conspiracy
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I do wonder how, in the long run, we will deal
more effectively with
the kind of POV warrioring that leads to entries
like this
one... where politically motivated hysteria leads
to blatant factual
errors.
Lots more banning, I suspect. There is simply no
upside and lots
of downside to letting WP be hijacked by political
partisans, and
they will keep coming, in ever-larger numbers, as
long as they
find WP a congenial soapbox. We need a process to
identify the
avowed partisans and kick them off after no more
than a week,
instead of agonizing over them for months and
sucking up massive
amounts of time that could be used more
productively.
Partisans are actually easy to recognize, because
they are
completely unable to admit that the other side
might possibly be
right about an issue. If you were to ban anybody
who refused to
acknowledge the possible validity of a different
point of view,
you'd see a whole more useful discussion on talk
pages.
Stan
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