RANT START
If these people were behaving the way they do on other websites (i.e.
Facebook, certain forums, whatever) or in other educational environments
(such as universities, museums) or tech firms (i.e. WMF staff, Google) -
they'd eventually be thrown out the door with perhaps even a legal
Well, I'm inclined to agree with the defense brigade. How *dare* you think
of taking action against such a fantastic contributor!? I mean, you Kaldari,
like every other administrator, has never done *anything* to help the
encyclopedia! Why do you not bow down before the content contributors? You
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:19 AM, ChaoticFluffy chaoticflu...@gmail.comwrote:
Pete Forsyth's strategy looks good on paper, but my feeling is that for this
particular *type* of uncivil editor (as opposed to your garden-variety
editor who happens to have lost his temper), an approach of something
On 10/26/11 7:19 AM, ChaoticFluffy wrote:
The only way to remove these people that has worked in the past has
been via arbcom, with enablers screaming bloody murder the whole way.
Yes, I've been down that road before, but I will never do it again. The
only arbcom case I ever pursued was
I think that we've all had our share of conflict in Wikipedia. I also
believe that conflict resolution is a difficult skill to both learn and use,
and I suspect that the folks who have difficulty with it on the internet and
forums like WP also have difficulty with it IRL. The skills one needs
