On 8/15/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
Make your motivations more clear than you're used to making them.
I think this one is the most important one in your list to keep in mind on wikipedia. It can be especially hard in non-face-to-face communications to convey subtle things like tone, but making your motivations clear can be very mediating in disputes as it helps the other side understand where you're coming from and exactly what in the dispute is important to you. Many negotiations can flounder when people haggle over results rather than first establishing what's important to each side and why.
Laurascudder