Fred Bauder wrote:
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 wouldn't want Wikipedia to be in a position of declaring certain ideologies "unwelcome". Whether the proper way of governing a nation-state is along fascist lines, monarchist lines, liberal lines, or no lines at all is an interesting political-science debate, but not one we need to have an "official Wikipedia position" on. Similarly, I don't think we need to answer the question of "when, if ever, is terrorism justified?" in order to write an encyclopedia.
In fact, I don't see how these are qualitatively different than any of the other content disputes on Wikipedia.
-Mark