[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 12:48:55 UTC 2005

Skyring wrote:

> I've just copped the latest in a long line of personal attacks from
> one particular editor who stands out for his attitude in a community
> where tolerance and restraint is generally the norm. I don't think his
> comments are justified, but even if they were, I would still take
> exception to the language:
> "Well I'm upset (really pissed off actually) by your deliberate
> obfuscation and timewasting, your dishonesty, your malicious
> misrepresentation of other people arguments, your rampant vanity and
> egotism and your general obnoxious fuckwittedness, so get used to it."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Government_of_Australia#The_real_issue
> To my mind this is no way to conduct any sort of productive debate,
> and as a rather new editor I wonder just how much this sort of thing
> is tolerated.

That comes under "response to severe provocation", which the AC does
not support. Probably the first thing for you do, though, would be to stop
insisting on your original research going in.

- d.