<DIV>I second Sascha's concerns. If you're an official representative of Wikipedia and are serving on a committee designed to make sure that people are following the policies, then it's not your place to pick and choose which policies you will enforce.</DIV>
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<DIV>RickK<BR><BR><B><I>Sascha Noyes <sascha@pantropy.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Friday 23 January 2004 05:51 pm, Sean Barrett wrote:<BR>> > If you think that personal attacks on other wikipedians are OK, then<BR>> > please advocate for the "no personal attacks" rule to get repealed.<BR>> ><BR>> > I advocate the enforcement of the agreed-upon rules that are specified in<BR>> > [[Wikipedia:Policy]], which happens to include [[Wikipedia:No personal<BR>> > attacks]]. Your characterisation of the desire of wikipedians that<BR>> > personal attacks should halt as 'Mommy, he called me xxx" and "whinging"<BR>> > is both condescending and illogical, given that "no personal attacks"<BR>> > happens to be a wikipedia policy. I have quoted it before, and I shall<BR>> > quote it again (from [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]):<BR>><BR>> Sorry, no. I am not going to try to change the policy. Rather, when<BR>>
a case comes before the arbitration committee that consist of nothing<BR>> more substantial than name-calling, I will recuse myself.<BR><BR>So what you're saying is that you don't want to enforce [[Wikipedia:No <BR>personal attacks]]. So who will enforce this rule? As I have stated before, <BR>we should either enforce our rules or stop paying lipservice to them and <BR>scrap them. <BR><BR>> My characterization is "illogical"? Non-sequitur -- I'm not a Vulcan.<BR>> "Condescending"? You're absolutely right. After all, my<BR>> /six-year-old/ doesn't need my help to handle simple name-calling.<BR><BR>I question your suitability for the role of arbitrator based on your <BR>condescention towards those who want the wikipedia policies enforced.<BR><BR>Best,<BR>Sascha Noyes<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><p><hr SIZE=1>
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