Thread:SavageOpress1138/@comment-104549-20160822120702/@comment-104549-20160822133254

Apart from the generic precedent that the community can vote in new policies, I don't think there's any precedent for an anti-Hitler policy based solely on existing policies. Without having read the page you're referencing, I can't critique the decision to delete the page. However, as a general statement, I think we have to be leery of a broad "nothing Hitler-like policy", if only because Palpatine is canonically based on Hitler (among other people). The Sith, by their nature, lend themselves to dictatorship, brutality, fearmongering, and genocide, and it's natural to look to Hitler and Nazi Germany for inspiration on those topics, given that Nazi Germany is one of the most infamous perpetrators of all of them in history.

Further, a broad "nothing Hitler-like policy" could also be underinclusive—Hitler was certainly bad, but so were Stalin, Pol Pot...the list goes on and on. I also don't think it would work to more narrowly tailor the policy so it would read something like, "No article may make mention of Adolf Hitler or Nazi Germany", because a user who otherwise crafted a decent article using Nazi Germany only as inspiration for details of, say, a secret police regime, would then be forbidden to acknowledge the inspiration in a Behind the Scenes section, and would face criticism for lifting details from history without acknowledging them.

In sum, while mentioning Hitler will always rile people to some degree, I think articles need to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, unless you're envisioning some specific iteration of an "anti-Hitler" policy that I haven't considered.