[WikiEN-l] Arbitration progress report #2

Sat Jan 24 23:51:33 UTC 2004

I second Sascha's concerns.  If you're an official representative of Wikipedia and are serving on a committee designed to make sure that people are following the policies, then it's not your place to pick and choose which policies you will enforce.

RickK

Sascha Noyes <sascha at pantropy.net> wrote:
On Friday 23 January 2004 05:51 pm, Sean Barrett wrote:
> > 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 please advocate for the "no personal attacks" rule to get repealed.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.

So what you're saying is that you don't want to enforce [[Wikipedia:No 
personal attacks]]. So who will enforce this rule? As I have stated before, 
we should either enforce our rules or stop paying lipservice to them and 
scrap them. 

> 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.

I question your suitability for the role of arbitrator based on your 
condescention towards those who want the wikipedia policies enforced.

Best,
Sascha Noyes

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