Quoting Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at:
joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu schrieb:
Furthermore, even if admins were blocking a specific POV- so what? In order for a POV to look similar to a blocked editor it generally needs to be extreme and with no caring for NPOV. So even if such blocks were occasionally occurring we aren't losing much.
What is an *extreme* POV very much depends on your own POV. People should get banned, if they are either harassing people, violate 3RR or deliberately try to harm Wikipedia. I strongly oppose admins, who block editors for having a specific POV. For NPOV we actually /need/ editors with different POVs as long as they can adept to a cooperative writing. Wikipedia would lose a lot of perspectives, if only editors with "genuine commitment to follow consensus" (majority view?) are welcome.
Up to a point. It is a popular misconception that all POVs can function on Wikipedia. There's not much we can do if someone thinks that nothing matters but spreading the TRUTH about how Republicans/Democrats/Communists/Capitalists/Israelis/Palestinians/Zionists/Pacifists/Rosicrucians/Shriners/Atheists /Grandmothers/Gerbils are evil. Certain classes of POVs don't lend themselves to writing a neutral encyclopedia. Not surprisingly, those POVs are generally extreme POVs (there occasion where moderates have the same attitude about their moderate positions but for some reason that seems to come up more rarely).