[WikiEN-l] Arbcom Overstepping

Harry Smith lance6wins at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 28 17:56:56 UTC 2004


And if that ruling is applied to each person who
inserts "Daniel Pipes POV" ?  Then is it not
censorship ?

Why should the restiction on "Daniel Pipes POV" be
applied to only one person ? 

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

> No, your right to insert the Daniel Pipes POV is
> removed. That ruling 
> makes no attempt to affect the right of other users
> to address Pipes's 
> viewpoints. Just you.
> 
> -Snowspinner
> 
> On Nov 28, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Harry Smith wrote:
> 
> > 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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