The Arbcom cannot exclude an advocate of totalitarianism or terrorism under our current policies, indeed, we cannot even accept a case on that basis alone. The user must go beyond advocacy and violate NPOV, make personal attacks, delete encyclopedic material, attempt to dominate a block of articles with aggressive POV editing, etc. before we can accept a case or even issue a mild rebuke. A polite thoughtful neo-nazi is welcome to edit under our current policies.
The Arbcom has a few critics who think we do otherwise, but while there is prejudice against these folks once they fall into our clutches we do more or less follow expressed Wikipedia policy.
Fred
From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:37:50 -0000 (GMT) To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] NSM88, deletion of user page image, personal attacks
Fred Bauder said:
In my opinion we should change that policy and permit exclusion of open advocates of totalitarian ideologies and terrorism.
Why? ArbCom can already exclude anybody who misbehaves. The policy as you're described it is also subject to interpretation. The words "totalitarian" and "terrorism" are both very slippery.
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