[WikiEN-l] Re: A neo-Nazi wikipedia

[Theresa Knott]

On 8/23/05, Rob <gamaliel8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The advantage to banning him now is that it prevents
> subtle skewing of articles or skewing of articles on
> obscure topics, both which may go unnoticed and
> uncorrected. 

Hardly. We are all watching him. If he's blocked what's to stop him
not logging in and editing or creating a whole host of socks and then
editing?

> It also saves a lot of stress and sweat
> for those editors who have to deal with him until he
> inevitably gets banned for something.

Partially agree. But if he doesn't actually do anything wrong then why
is it stressfull to deal with him?

>  Neither of
> these will be that detrimental to the project as a
> whole in the long run, but they are not negligible
> effects.

What really concerns me is this sort of thing

"I have no interest whatsoever in getting involved in Eustace Mullins.
Mullins is a repulsive, demented antisemite. The article on him is not
balanced and nothing like NPOV, but I'm not going into bat for him."

This is Grace Note talking on Amalekite's talk page. Having nonNPOV
articles is very much to the detriment of Wikipedia. Having some
neonazis to bat for neonazi related articles is probably the only way
of achieving NPOV on those articles, as regular wikipedians may well
(Like Grace Note) be reluctant to.

Theresa 
> Gamaliel
> 
> 
> Theresa Knott theresaknott at gmail.com
> Tue Aug 23 01:57:07 UTC 2005
> 
> We could ban him then. Is there any particular hurry?
> Why don't we
> wait until he does something wrong and then ban him?
> 
> (Note that I'm playing devils advocate here. I'm not
> concerned enough
> to go and unblock him)
> 
> Theresa
> 
> 
> 
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