Abe Sokolov wrote:
I am going to make strong pleas against any moves to
ban RK or marginalize him. While I’m not arguing that we tolerate his bad behavior in the
short-run, it is crucial that we tolerate having to deal with, and act against, his bad
behavior instance by instance in the long-run. To sum up my argument, RK’s bad behavior is
an indispensable asset for Wikipedia.
We shouldn't be tolerating bad behavior at all. If we make the excuse
that we
have to tolerate it for the sake of content, that's just going to encourage
more bad behavior. There are people who have some detailed knowledge of the
Israeli Palestinian conflict, a generally neutral point of view, and a
commitment to scholarly investigation, myself for instance, but I've
generally avoided those articles because Wikipedia is not paying me enough
to put up with constant abuse and name-calling by RK. How many other
neutrals are not contributing because RK and others have turned that whole
area of Wikipedia into a miniaturized version of real life?
Stan