[WikiEN-l] Let's keep "no personal attacks" (was: Arbitration progress report #2)

Mon Jan 26 15:00:32 UTC 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poor, Edmund W [mailto:Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com]
> Sent: 26 January 2004 14:57
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Let's keep "no personal attacks" (was: Arbitration
> progress report #2)
> 
> 
> Sean,
> 
> I'm glad there's a contrarian on board. Like the Cunctator, 
> you will help balance a process that has a risk of turning 
> into a witch-hunt.
> 
> But...
> 
> There are only three things that really piss off valuable 
> contributors and drive them away:
> 
> 1. Arbitrary reversion of good work (i.e., edit wars with 
>    morons)
> 
> 2. Name-calling (e.g., "you moron, stop reverting my work")
> 
> Ed Poor
> 
> P.S. There are 3 kinds of statisticians, those who can count 
> and those who can't ;-)

And the third one is people who seem to be at Wikipedia just to stir the
pot, never making any useful contributions.

Billy Mills
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