[WikiEN-l] WP:DENY is a steaming pile of crap.

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 8 Nov 2007 09:38:35 +1100, "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 3. Once a person with sufficient wisdom and
> authority has deemed that a person is a troll, THEY ARE A TROLL. No
> more time should be wasted on them.

That sounds a lot like the Orwellian "Unperson", or Scientology 
"Suppressive Person", concepts, and can be really unfair to people 
who are unjustly labeled this way.  Didn't an early version of WP:NPA 
specifically say that labeling somebody a "troll" was an 
impermissible personal attack?  The Wikipedia culture has changed 
since then, and not necessarily for the better.


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