It is being involved which will teach you how to avoid the common mistakes
which disputive Wikipedia editors make, such as making personal attacks
rather than addressing user behavior, and discussing the issues rather than
focusing on how to express and include divergent opinions in articles on
controversial subjects.
If you are not going to make personal attacks anyway being on personal
attack parole doesn't amount to much.
Fred
From: "JAY JG" <jayjg(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:43:39 -0500
To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?
From: "Tony Sidaway"
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com>
Someone who is scared to take a complaint to the
arbitration committee because he may then be held accountable for his own
actions is, it seems to me, missing the point.
Missing the point indeed; the point being that few people come out looking
completely spotless under the kind of forensic examination that sometimes
happens in the inevitable counter-suits, combined with the fear that ArbCom
will feel it needs to sanction both parties, so that it appears "fair".
Again, I'm not saying this is actually happening, but that there is a
perception that this is happening, which discourages people from getting
involved.
Jay.
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