[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[David Gerard]

2009/8/12 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:

> You'd have thought that would be the argument: Wikipedia is a working
> environment, and those who cause the environment to deteriorate are on a
> warning. That's where things had got to a couple of years ago, and no
> progress has been made since then. In fact there are brownie points to
> be had in some cases by people who completely disregard all of that.


Indeed. Enforcement would require the Arbitration Committee to
actually be interested.

In practice, the 2009 AC is a miserable failure in setting any
standard: note the recent case of a notoriously incivil admin, who was
busted running an even more abusive sockpuppet for two years; the AC
sat on the evidence for a month and it took incensed bludgeoning to
get them to actually do anything about it. That's beyond appeasement
and into personal enablement. But they are the AC the community voted
for. So civility won't be a happener until the community shows it is
with its votes.

There's a lot to be said for deleting the Wikipedia: space in its
entirety and starting the community over ...


- d.