slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
It's not easy to do this all the while knowing that the editor (in this case) personally believes that his Jewish Wikipedian colleagues are sub-human.
Look at the response to Amalekite's post here http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=22047&highlight=wikipedia
"I think it's time for the white man to use a different strategy against these semitic jew mongrels, the days of talking are over, it is time to use physical force against the jewish population, and take our country back. They are vicious vile people, either we are going to survive or them."
And others quote Alex Linder (who is Amalekite) as saying: "DEATH TO THE JEWS."
One thing that puzzles me is that these quotes are not firsthand from Amalekite, whose own words aren't that much different than what we see from the slew of nationalist POV warriors blathering all over talk pages now. So it sounds like we're talking about pre-banning not on the strength of a person's own statements, but on what other people are saying about him? Brings to mind a new strategy to get rid of the editors I don't like - create an external website describing their evilness, and perhaps fabricating a few statements too.
In general, our mechanism for verifying real-life identities is so poor that we should be very very reluctant to assume that any given login corresponds to any real-life person, even if the login makes such a claim. That's the real core of why I think we should only consider behavior within Wikipedia - that's all we can really know for sure about an editor.
Stan