JAY JG wrote:
I disagree. Calling someone a "deletionist
vandal" (or any other kind
of vandal) is clearly a personal attack, particularly when the people
in question are not doing what Wikipedia defines as vandalism.
WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA are fundamental Wikipedia policies, and judicious
use of temporary blocks for editors who defiantly refuse to abide by
these policies has a salutary effect, hopefully on the blocked
editors, but if not on them, then on everyone subjected to their
attacks, and on Wikipedia itself. If Wikipedia is to succeed, it must
be a place where people of good faith *want* to edit, not a poisonous
cesspool of incivility and attacks that any right-minded person would
naturally want to avoid.
A 4-month block for personal attacks is clearly something within the
purview of the Arbitration Committee, and not individual admins to
decide, *especially* not individual admins who have had past
disagreements with the user in question.
Even MrNaturalHealth was not blocked summarily without going through the
normal process, so I see no reason to start allowing such nonsense now.
-Mark