On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
They could but they won't; anyone on this list
knows that it's been
tried before. Making admins the "civility police" as some folks like
to call them is too difficult a nut for the Wikipedia community to
crack. Either the admins are bad, the rules are bad, or the whole idea
is bad - many prominent, longtime 'pedians would argue all three are
true.
We should propose a civility patrol. It would not require anyone to be
an admin and would just give people a heads up that they are being
uncivil. No judgment on the validity of somebody's argument, just on
its degree of civility. Possibly along with a "ticket" describing the
degree of the incivility on a scale of 1 to 10 and maybe a description
of its nature.
-Ezra