On 15 April 2013 18:39, Nathan wrote:
> "You're an idiot, and you're damaging the project. It's not about
> copyright, or understanding it. What I'll do is to keep swearing at
> you, and I'll be uploading tons of files onto en.WP, not Commons. That
> will just disadvantage other users, and will ca
"You're an idiot, and you're damaging the project. It's not about
copyright, or understanding it. What I'll do is to keep swearing at
you, and I'll be uploading tons of files onto en.WP, not Commons. That
will just disadvantage other users, and will cause Commons admins more
work eventually in havi
On 15 April 2013 16:14, Nathan wrote:
> I don't think what you're seeing is anything particularly peculiar to
> en.wp - I've encountered rude or socially awkward people from all
> projects.
But see discussion on
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tony1]]. Some of my
unfavourite people there
I don't think what you're seeing is anything particularly peculiar to
en.wp - I've encountered rude or socially awkward people from all
projects. Since the English Wikipedia has by far the most users of any
single project, it only follows that its share of difficult people
works out to a larger num
Nathan, actually I even linked an example of my "own history" of
misunderstandings, from which I learnt in first person the different
standards of en.wiki. It seemed to me enough context for my proposal,
i.e. to avoid non-en.wiki users to go through the same mistakes again
and again when intera
It's a body with no head, and absent leadership and a mandate you're
never going to achieve a uniform behavioral standard.
Meanwhile, it appears you failed to disclose your own history with at
least one of the users whose behavior you have called out.
_
I just stumbled upon this (from a user asking help on
#wikimedia-commons): an en.wiki supposedly respected user shows gross
incivility on Commons, a surprised local admin doesn't know what to
think and is insulted in return, the user continues and gets two blocks.[1]
Until a few months ago I wou
