[Wikipedia-l] Polite Thoughtful Neo-Nazis, was NSM88, deletion of user page image, personal attacks

[Fred Bauder]

The Arbcom cannot exclude an advocate of totalitarianism or terrorism under
our current policies, indeed, we cannot even accept a case on that basis
alone. The user must go beyond advocacy and violate NPOV, make personal
attacks, delete encyclopedic material, attempt to dominate a block of
articles with aggressive POV editing, etc. before we can accept a case or
even issue a mild rebuke. A polite thoughtful neo-nazi is welcome to edit
under our current policies.

The Arbcom has a few critics who think we do otherwise, but while there is
prejudice against these folks once they fall into our clutches we do more or
less follow expressed Wikipedia policy.

Fred

> From: "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
> Reply-To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:37:50 -0000 (GMT)
> To: <wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] NSM88, deletion of user page image, personal
> attacks
> 
> Fred Bauder said:
>> In my
>> opinion we should change that policy and permit exclusion of open
>> advocates of totalitarian ideologies and terrorism.
> 
> Why?  ArbCom can already exclude anybody who misbehaves.  The policy as
> you're described it is also subject to interpretation.  The words
> "totalitarian" and "terrorism" are both very slippery.
> 
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