Adam Carr was banned for personal abuse, not for POV edit warring. In a few cases we have banned editors entirely from their POV area of interest.
Fred
From: David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:11:15 +0000 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] POV Pushers
Fred Bauder wrote:
This is one remedy the arbitration committee has been applying to dedicated POV warriors. Not always, it is not policy itself, just a way to deal with determined violaters of NPOV and other policies. But it could be policy. However it may prove difficult to separate editors who insist on the integrity of the article, like Adam Carr, from editors who insist on a biased article.
His one-day ban was for personal abuse. And it should be noted that he has a long history of personal abusiveness, particularly in edit summaries (don't take my word for it, check his contributions).
I should note that I often completely agree with his comments along these lines. But that doesn't make them the right way to do things, and a record of good contributions *still* isn't an excuse for bad and (and this is the point) intimidatory behavior.
- d.
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