> In my
opinion, he IS vandalizing the project by creating
> tons of pages that are really indefensible from a NPOV-encyclopedia
> standpoint. Banning him would certainly result in tirades of "those
> people/that clique doesn't like what I say, so they're oppressing me",
> but this may be the point where we have to make a call on policy.
I'd like to hear Cunctator weigh in on this topic. He's probably our
current best "conscience" on such matters, in the sense that he's very
opposed to cabalism, and clearly sees the risk.
To me, the risk is two fold. First, there's the possibility of the
public tirades against our allegedly exclusionary policies, etc. But
second, there's the danger that we go down a slipperly slope and start
banning people for more and more minor infractions.
I have to admit I missed most of the 24 stuff since I was actually
doing stuff other than Wikipedia for a while, so I'm not entirely sure
what people are talking about. I saw the stuff labeled as (24) on
meta, which seems to be intelligently motivated but written in a way
that's guaranteed to antagonize/confuse people.
What did 24 do on wikipedia.com?
I really don't think people need to even consider banning 24. If I
hadn't read all these posts on the mailing list or scanned meta, I
wouldn't even have known such a person existed.
But again, I really have no idea what the scale of 24's actions are.
Though perhaps that should be taken as an indication that the community
response was already sufficient in assimilating 24's contributions.
--tc