[WikiEN-l] Arbitration progress report #2

Sat Jan 24 08:51:58 UTC 2004

Sascha Noyes wrote:
>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]]):

I'm in 100% agreement with this. The reason why we have policies like 'no 
personal attacks' is because allowing personal attacks drives away good 
contributors and creates a hostile working environment where reason is 
sacrificed in favor of bullying (thus the most persistant troll wins in 
article content disputes). This goes directly against our goal of creating 
NPOV and accurate content. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)