Charles Matthews schreef:
Guess what - sometimes you have to put up with the pesky business of people needing to argue the matter out on talk pages.
I've been following CZ for some time, and one gets the feeling that Larry Sanger doesn't really like arguementsi, or open discussion.
One of the rules at CZ is that you cannot complain about another editor at all. This is to prevent long discussions on who is right, but according to Adam Cuerden's blog post, it is one of the reasons why the Homeopathy article is so bad.
The "anti-homeopathy" side started to make complaints about the other side, and regardless of whether the complaints were justified, they were templated with {{nocomplaints}}. (No [[WP:DTTR]] at CZ...) And then the other side won.
The idea behind the nocomplaints policy seems a good one, perhaps, but in reality, it hampers discussion. After one of the latest intervention by Larry Sanger, the reply was "I don't think you should have removed that", which was promptly replaced by another {{nocomplaints}}...
I think there is a lesson in here for the other thread in this mailing list at the moment: A zero-tolerance policy on incivility will be interpreted loosely at times, which will hamper discussion, which leads to bad articles if the number of editors is low (like on CZ or at low-visibility WP articles).
Eugene