That was a strawman point, and exposed as such.
I'm sorry that I misunderstood you. I stand corrected. Interpreting the
message of parodies is probably not one of my strong points. I honestly
thought you were talking about the demonization of nazis, rather than the
banning of User:Amalekite.
The issue was about banning *one* user, who
edited disruptively, targetted a list of Wikipedians
for attack, and said pretty nasty and vile things
about them in particular, and Jews in general.
He did not edit disruptively. Anything else he may have done happened off
Wikipedia. Some participants in this discussion are of the opinion that no
off site actions should be taken into account in the banning of Wikipedia
users. Among the reasons that have been mentioned is that we can rarely be
completely certain that a Wikipedia user is identical to a person posting
on another site. Another reason is that the content of such sites can
change quickly, making review of decisions based on it difficult. A third
reason is that it can be a daunting task to read through off site forums
for evidence in such a case, especially if the forum in question contains
material which many Wikipedians are likely to find distasteful.
I'm personally 99% certain that User:Amalekite is the same person as the
Frank Sinatra poster on the Stormfront forums (rather than just pretending
to be the same person). That poster did compile a list of Wikipedians -
but not for attack, as far as I can see. His own words are:
"Monitor the activities of the first 5 on the list (watch their user
contribution pages and their user talk pages) and you'll have a good idea
of what the entire gang is up to."
Nevertheless I can understand that people might be uncomfortable with
having their user page on such a list in that particular forum.
The Frank Sinatra poster certainly did say nasty things about the
Wikipedians on the top of his list - calling them "ruthless and vicious"
among other things. He also made some more general remarks on Jews but I
don't feel that's relevant.
Regards,
Haukur