[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Thu Mar 10 06:21:54 UTC 2005

I agree, Rick, I agree.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rick <giantsrick13 at yahoo.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Abusive editors
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:59:39 -0800 (PST)

> 
> 
> --- 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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