On 6/20/06, Jon Awbrey jawbrey@att.net wrote:
when i started out, i called a spade a spade. things that any mature adult, not to mention trained scholar, would call obvious vandalism, manifest disruption, uninformed statements, or malformed citation are things that i described in precisely those terms. and all i got was one dire warning after another that you just aren't allowed to say those sorts of things.
I'd agree here that 'No Personal Attacks' gets over-used at times; used to stifle criticism of edits, which it should not. I haven't looked at the specific examples of disputes you've been involved in, however.
Which is not to say that one should be impolite, but one should be allowed to be accurate.
-Matt