[WikiEN-l] Arbcom Overstepping

Sat Nov 27 02:57:58 UTC 2004

I'm seriously concerned about a recent arbcom enforcement. A ban was 
ordered against [[User:C Colden]] as per the ruling in the case of 
Lyndon LaRouche.

C Colden was not a Wikipedia user when the LaRouche ruling was made. He 
was not a party to that case. However, the ruling of the case, 
apparently, was a ruling against the insertion of "original research 
originating with the LaRouche movement" (Which seems to be an 
interchangable phrase with "the LaRouche point of view") into any 
article by any user.

This seems to me to reflect a hard arbcom ruling that the LaRouche POV 
is not something that need be included under the Wikipedia NPOV policy. 
As loathesome as I find the LaRouche movement to be, I am seriously 
troubled by the notion that the arbcom can and will make blanket 
rulings that certain perspectives are not part of NPOV.

-Snowspinner