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