Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I'm getting awfully tired of watching
environmentalists inject their
junk science POV into articles. They palm off their own prejudices as
scientific fact far too glibly for me to remain patient any longer.
While I can sympathize with some of this, I don't think it's any sort of
a special case. Environmentalism versus its critics is an NPOV dispute,
much like Israel/Palestine, pro/anti War on Iraq, pro/anti abortion, and
so on. We have a ton of NPOV disputes on Wikipedia pretty much
constantly, and I don't think there's a great solution to it other than
to hammer them out on a case by case basis.
That said, users on any subject who are consistently problematic should
be asked to tone things down. But if we banned all partisans, we'd be
banning a good portion of our userbase (just banning all
Israel/Palestine partisans would probably take out 10-15 of our more
active contributors).
As for "issuing official warnings," how exactly are they official? I
could issue "official warnings," but they'd still just be me personally
warning people. As for suspending people, you *certainly* don't have
the authority to do that any more than I have the authority to suspend
you. At this point I think only Jimbo has the authority to do anything
officially, and soon hopefully we'll have some committees set up to do
so as well.
-Mark