On Sunday 18 January 2004 09:44 pm, Toby Bartels wrote:
It /is/ a matter of contention? Sorry, I thought that you had said that you wanted this matter clarified before people were banned for it. (But I may have confused this with something that somebody else wrote.)
My apologies for not reading [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines]] carefully. I missed the part under the heading stating: "In addition to the generally accepted policies listed above, the following guidelines have been suggested by various participants:" under which the "no personal attacks is placed. I propose moving it up to the section of generally accepted policies. How does a policy become generally accepted?
Because the policy of not making personal attacks is listed as a "suggested policy" on [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines]], I have edited [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]] to reflect that fact. The matter that I had said I wanted clarified is the exact procedure for getting someone to act according to the guidelines. Now that you have made me (all of us?) aware of the fact that it is not actually a generally accepted policy, that will also have to be resolved.
Mav already gave a good suggestion for making it less obscure, which is to list it on the submission requirements page that he wants linked to from every edit page. Then it would clearly be a requirement for any submission, not merely one of 50 "guidelines to consider".
I agree that this is the correct way to bring the policies to the attention of wikipedians.
Best, Sascha Noyes