Fred Bauder (fredbaud@ctelco.net) [050217 23:28]:
As our policy is currently written, running off neo-nazis or Stalinist (or Trotskyist or Maoist) revolutionaries is not permitted. Nor is exclusion of open advocates of Islamic (or Zionist) terrorism. In my opinion we should change that policy and permit exclusion of open advocates of totalitarian ideologies and terrorism.
I'm not sure we actually *need* this as yet. The Wikipedia immune system appears to be working fine from here.
The actions you describe are not acceptable behavior from Wikipedia administrators.
The blocks were seen as unfair and promptly undone by other admins, which demonstrates to the original blockers that their reason was seen as inadequate. Though my block (for being a trolling account with no good edits - I am entirely unconvinced that User:NSM88 has anything to do with the personit purports to be operated by) stuck, until being unblocked yesterday by Snowspinner as it was clogging an AOL proxy. (The way to get around that one, as I understand it, is to undo the IP number block but leave the username blocked.)
Admins not sure about whether something should be blocked should ask on [[WP:AN]], which is excellent for sanity checking of janitorial decisions.
- d.