On Sunday 18 January 2004 05:40 pm, Toby Bartels wrote:
Sascha Noyes wrote:
The policy on personal attacks is not at all obscure. On the front page of wikipedia is a link to [[Wikipedia:Policy and guidelines]] (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines). On that page, under the header "Specific guidelines to consider" is a link to [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]] (http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks), which I have quoted above.
Number 9 on a list of 50 items /is/ obscure. If this is going to be used as material for a ban, then I agree that it should be made less obscure!
That is a matter of contention. How would you make it less obscure? Would you have all the policies listed on the "policy page" actually displayed on that page? The page would become very large indeed.
Your obscurity argument would constitute a somewhat valid criticism had it not been the case that MNH was informed by various different wikipedians approximately six times that "no personal attacks, period." was an official wikipedia policy.
Best, Sascha Noyes