[WikiEN-l] Personal Attacks

Fri Jan 23 23:05:37 UTC 2004

I guess I'm at the other pole and just don't want to be associated with any
offensive personality and vote with my feet before I put up with it.

Fred

> From: Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.org>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:51:47 -0800
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration progress report #2
> 
>> If you think that personal attacks on other wikipedians are OK, then please
>> advocate for the "no personal attacks" rule to get repealed.
>> 
>> I advocate the enforcement of the agreed-upon rules that are specified in
>> [[Wikipedia:Policy]], which happens to include [[Wikipedia:No personal
>> attacks]]. Your characterisation of the desire of wikipedians that personal
>> attacks should halt as 'Mommy, he called me xxx" and "whinging" is both
>> condescending and illogical, given that "no personal attacks" happens to be a
>> wikipedia policy. I have quoted it before, and I shall quote it again (from
>> [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]):
> 
> Sorry, no.  I am not going to try to change the policy.  Rather, when
> a case comes before the arbitration committee that consist of nothing
> more substantial than name-calling, I will recuse myself.
> 
> Vandalism, yes.  Explicit threats, yes.  Edit wars, yes.  Insults?
> You're not paying me enough to tell people not to be hostile
> or rude.  I'd rather relieve Sisyphus for a millennium or two.
> 
> My characterization is "illogical"?  Non-sequitur -- I'm not a Vulcan.
> "Condescending"?  You're absolutely right.  After all, my
> /six-year-old/ doesn't need my help to handle simple name-calling.
> 
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