Mr Paul Vogel wrote:

Indeed. Do NOT throw out the good with the bad, as I do actually suspect has really happened here and as often as NOT, David.

My personal feeling about Wikipedia is that sometimes it is necessary to "throw out the good with the bad." The "good", in this instance, I see as the contribution of alternative points of view that when appropriately presented bring our encyclopedia closer to NPOV. The "bad", in contrast, is having someone direct numerous offensive statements at other Wikipedians.

I am not going to weigh the good and bad brought to Wikipedia by Mr. Paul Vogel. That is for the arbitration committee to do. But there is no reason to be ashamed of throwing out the good with the bad, if the bad is more than we can tolerate. There are other sources of the same good (with the double meaning of "good" as in commodity), and we can get it without having to poison our community.

--Michael Snow