[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Marc Riddell]

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Marc Riddell<michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> To be fully productive, to reach its greatest
>> potential and to achieve its stated goals a workplace's culture cannot vary.
>> To work, to create, at their full potential, a person must be able to focus
>> on that: the work. They cannot be constantly looking over their shoulder, or
>> live with the anxiety that an unstable, unpredictable workplace can produce.
> 
on 8/12/09 1:09 PM, Carcharoth at carcharothwp at googlemail.com wrote:

> I think it is a balance. Have too uniform a culture and the variety of
> our output will suffer, both in terms of those willing to edit here
> (imagine the people who edit Wikipedia trying to get along in a normal
> workplace) and the diversity of the articles. There is also an
> argument that a homogenous workplace would work against 'neutral point
> of view'.
> 
Once again, Carcharoth, I am not speaking about points of view regarding
specific subjects. We can disagree to hell and gone about something and
still maintain a mutual courtesy and respect for each other as human beings.

Marc