[WikiEN-l] No more blocking people for who they *are*?

Steve Bennett stevage at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 16:00:00 UTC 2006


On 2/9/06, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> That was user Amalekite / [[Alex Linder]], and he was blocked for
> endangering Wikipedians (he also suggested ways of subverting Wikipedia
> using sockpuppets and proxies).  Nevertheless, he wasn't blocked for simply
> being a neo-Nazi/white supremacist; neo-Nazis/white supremacists regularly
> post on Wikipedia.

Seems reasonable to me - to exclude their input would be to create a
deliberate bias. Would we allow relatives of victims of Auschwitz to
edit, but not relatives of Nazis who worked at Auschwitz?

Steve



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