[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Tue Jun 20 18:06:28 UTC 2006

On 6/20/06, Jon Awbrey <jawbrey at att.net> wrote:
> when i started out, i called a spade a spade.
> things that any mature adult, not to mention
> trained scholar, would call obvious vandalism,
> manifest disruption, uninformed statements, or
> malformed citation are things that i described
> in precisely those terms.  and all i got was
> one dire warning after another that you just
> aren't allowed to say those sorts of things.

I'd agree here that 'No Personal Attacks' gets over-used at times;
used to stifle criticism of edits, which it should not.  I haven't
looked at the specific examples of disputes you've been involved in,
however.

Which is not to say that one should be impolite, but one should be
allowed to be accurate.

-Matt