[WikiEN-l] Featured editors?

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at>:

> joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu schrieb:
>>
>> Furthermore, even if admins were blocking a specific POV- so what?
>> In  order for a POV to look similar to a blocked editor it generally
>> needs to be extreme and with no caring for NPOV. So even if such
>> blocks were occasionally occurring we aren't losing much.
>
> What is an *extreme* POV very much depends on your own POV.
> People should get banned, if they are either harassing people,
> violate 3RR or deliberately try to harm Wikipedia. I strongly
> oppose admins, who block editors for having a specific POV.
> For NPOV we actually /need/ editors with different POVs as
> long as they can adept to a cooperative writing. Wikipedia
> would lose a lot of perspectives, if only editors with
> "genuine commitment to follow consensus" (majority view?)
> are welcome.

Up to a point. It is a popular misconception that all POVs can function on
Wikipedia. There's not much we can do if someone thinks that nothing matters
but spreading the TRUTH about how
Republicans/Democrats/Communists/Capitalists/Israelis/Palestinians/Zionists/Pacifists/Rosicrucians/Shriners/Atheists
/Grandmothers/Gerbils are evil. Certain classes of POVs don't lend 
themselves to
writing a neutral encyclopedia. Not surprisingly, those POVs are generally
extreme POVs (there occasion where moderates have the same attitude 
about their
moderate positions but for some reason that seems to come up more rarely).