Jimmy, Robert-
RK, you're a longtime contributor, highly valued, but I'd like to ask you to tone it down a notch. Referring to the contributions of others as "Neo-Nazi-like revisionism" is not kind, and it causes people to get very upset, and with good reason I think.
Unfortunately, RK is frequently very confrontational or even insulting without provocation, and he uses accusations of anti-Semitism and vandalism a lot. We all give him a little leeway because he has made many excellent contributions. But he has often turned disagreements that could have been addressed rationally into highly emotionalized flamefests.
I'm not sure what the best way to deal with this is. Martin sometimes removes personal attacks from the comment pages, which on the one hand is a beautiful use of wiki's strength, on the other hand can be perceived as intrusive. Should we officially condone this kind of editing? If we made it policy, maybe more people would do it and discussions would automatically take on a reasonable tone. On the other hand, people could perceive Wikipedia as an excessively PC place, and the editing policy might be abused for the purpose of "sanitizing" comments. We would have to be very careful to limit it to personal attacks, and to avoid any extension to controversial statements. I'd like to hear opinions on this specifically.
Of course, the obvious thing to do is to ask Robert to review and change his behavior. The cynic in me says "Yeah, right".
Regards,
Erik