Mandated regulations for forcing politeness generally don't work well. If you don't trust people to have common sense, they won't exercise it.
But I know I'm in the minority here, so have fun. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > George Herbert wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >> 2009/2/9 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > >> > >> > >>> Most of our editors enjoy marking up their user page with details about > >>> themselves, and I see no harm to the project in that and it's my > believe > >>> > >> that > >> > >>> those who do it, constitute the majority of the editors and thus the > >>> > >> "consensus" > >> > >>> that it should be viewed as just fine. > >>> > >> I view it as similar to decorating your cubicle at work. > >> > >> > > > > > > At the very least , let's try to keep "focusing only on Encyclopedia > > activities" separate from "focusing on abusive and rude behavior". They > are > > not related in any way. I don't know of any significant objection in > > principle to people treating each other politely, but I do know of plenty > of > > opposition (and count myself among it) on sterilizing the environment of > any > > personalization. > > > > The target of the day is rude abusive behavior - stay on target. > > > > > With respect, there are other ways of "lowering the tone", besides "rude > abusive". A somewhat large and scarlet herring having been drawn across > that point, I seem to have to point it out once more. > > Charles > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
