Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I'm getting awfully tired of watching environmentalists inject their junk science POV into articles. They palm off their own prejudices as scientific fact far too glibly for me to remain patient any longer.
While I can sympathize with some of this, I don't think it's any sort of a special case. Environmentalism versus its critics is an NPOV dispute, much like Israel/Palestine, pro/anti War on Iraq, pro/anti abortion, and so on. We have a ton of NPOV disputes on Wikipedia pretty much constantly, and I don't think there's a great solution to it other than to hammer them out on a case by case basis.
That said, users on any subject who are consistently problematic should be asked to tone things down. But if we banned all partisans, we'd be banning a good portion of our userbase (just banning all Israel/Palestine partisans would probably take out 10-15 of our more active contributors).
As for "issuing official warnings," how exactly are they official? I could issue "official warnings," but they'd still just be me personally warning people. As for suspending people, you *certainly* don't have the authority to do that any more than I have the authority to suspend you. At this point I think only Jimbo has the authority to do anything officially, and soon hopefully we'll have some committees set up to do so as well.
-Mark