On 8/23/05, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
Yellow card! :-) Officially WP has no position on whether Nazi dogma is hateful or absurd - that is just another POV.
If it is going to become WP policy to pre-ban editors, then we should be at least honest about it and put it up front on the login creation page:
"If you are found to be an adherent of any dogma that any Wikipedia administrator find hateful and/or absurd, your login may be subject to immediate suspension."
I suspect a lot of admins would go for this level of power actually. :-)
Stan
I also suspect more than a few administrators would be pre-banned as well, perhaps even more than half.
Don't think so?
Then consider that many atheists find theist beliefs to be fundamentally absurd, and many theists feel that way about atheists.
To me, pre-banning people is a measure (albeit a small measure) of fascism and prejudice. I prefer we don't join them in their cesspool. Instead, judge them on the merits of their edits.