True and in our human attempt to adequately describe such folks we use the
words "totalitarian" and "terrorist", in reference to such
organizations and
governments as the People's Republic of China and individuals such as Osama
bin Ladin. Such folks do not hesitate to "mess up other things for the
cause". There is every reason, based on their history, to presume that they
will conduct themselves in that way on Wikipedia and in fact they routinely
do so, some crudely, some with a measure of sophistication.
Fred
From: David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au>
Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:11:26 +1100
To: wikipedia-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Polite Thoughtful Neo-Nazis, was NSM88, deletion of
user page image, personal attacks
only a minority are sufficiently obsessed with their cause to
blithely mess up other things for the cause. So there's no reason to
presume they're not comporting themselves properly here unless and until
they actually do just that.