[WikiEN-l] Only Hard Cases?

Sat Jan 24 00:15:45 UTC 2004

So just regularly not following policy is ok, so long as you're polite about
it?

Fred

> From: Delirium <delirium at rufus.d2g.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:06:19 -0800
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbitration progress report #2
> 
> Sascha Noyes wrote:
> 
>> So what you're saying is that you don't want to enforce [[Wikipedia:No
>> personal attacks]]. So who will enforce this rule? As I have stated before,
>> we should either enforce our rules or stop paying lipservice to them and
>> scrap them. 
>> 
>> 
> Well, I see a lot of our policies more as "you ought to do this" and
> "you ought not do this", rather than as "if you do (don't) do this you
> will be banned", which is a somewhat more strenuous pronouncement.  Of
> course if we have no consequences the rules are meaningless, but I don't
> think we should be banning people simply for violating "the letter of
> the law", so to speak.  Really we should only ban people who we've
> determined are highly detrimental to Wikipedia, combined with a
> determination that they're unlikely to change their behavior in the near
> future.  In my opinion, anyway.
> 
> -Mark
> 
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