[WikiEN-l] Arbcom Overstepping

[Harry Smith]

This does not appear to the be only case of POV
censoring by ArbCom
see the WP:RFAR vs Lance6Wins.

The Daniel Pipes POV is also censored.

Lance6Wins


--- Phil Sandifer <sandifer at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I'm seriously concerned about a recent arbcom
> enforcement. A ban was 
> ordered against [[User:C Colden]] as per the ruling
> in the case of 
> Lyndon LaRouche.
> 
> C Colden was not a Wikipedia user when the LaRouche
> ruling was made. He 
> was not a party to that case. However, the ruling of
> the case, 
> apparently, was a ruling against the insertion of
> "original research 
> originating with the LaRouche movement" (Which seems
> to be an 
> interchangable phrase with "the LaRouche point of
> view") into any 
> article by any user.
> 
> This seems to me to reflect a hard arbcom ruling
> that the LaRouche POV 
> is not something that need be included under the
> Wikipedia NPOV policy. 
> As loathesome as I find the LaRouche movement to be,
> I am seriously 
> troubled by the notion that the arbcom can and will
> make blanket 
> rulings that certain perspectives are not part of
> NPOV.
> 
> -Snowspinner
> 
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