[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Thu Mar 10 05:59:39 UTC 2005

--- Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- "steven l. rubenstein" <rubenste at ohiou.edu>
> wrote:
> > ...2) what appears to be a personal attack on the
> part of Adam Carr 
> > is simply an example of how members of the
> community, acting in their
> > anarchic, unregulated way, try to protect the
> quality of articles 
> > after reasonable, polite efforts have failed.
>       (..merging two posts...)
> > If an editor is obstructing improvement of the
> article, or is damaging the 
> > article, we need an effective mechanism to deal
> with that problem, directly.
> 
> Would none of the measures in [[Wikipedia:Resolving
> disputes]] have been
> appropriate in this instance? For example,
> quantifying consensus via a vote,
> requesting sanctions against a user who flouts
> consensus...etc.

I think we've discussed ad nauseum how people are
afraid to request sanctions against other users
because of the perceived (and real) threat that the
arbcom will turn it against the person bringing the
case.

RickK

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