2009/2/9 The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com:
Mandated regulations for forcing politeness generally don't work well. If you don't trust people to have common sense, they won't exercise it.
I don't either. However, it was interesting to note KPBotany's claims in the WT:ACN thread that en:wp is notably worse than other Wikipedias in this regard.
- d.