[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 18:19:16 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

> [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy/Personal attacks (old)]] has the vote. The vote
> came out 36 for, 26 against, 5 neutral - simple majority, but not enough of
> one to indicate consensus. As far as I can tell, the objections are that
> it's too subjective.
> 
> The instructive recent case of Skyring versus Adam Carr (a coupla messages
> ago) shows one obvious hole: Skyring belittling or ignoring all attempts at
> reason until the editor attempting to reason with him blows his top at the
> intransigent POV-pusher.

I have seen editors respond to "I think you are wrong here" with 
allegations of a "virulent and aggressive personal attack".  At it's 
most extreme, it's obviously ignored.  But, in a couple of cases, I've 
seen sensible, good editors fall into this sort of misinterpretation. 
Considering how subjective a straightforward rule like the 3RR turned 
out to be, I'm a bit dubious about this one actually /reducing/ the 
amount of conflict around.

--sannse