It is being involved which will teach you how to avoid the common mistakes which disputive Wikipedia editors make, such as making personal attacks rather than addressing user behavior, and discussing the issues rather than focusing on how to express and include divergent opinions in articles on controversial subjects.
If you are not going to make personal attacks anyway being on personal attack parole doesn't amount to much.
Fred
From: "JAY JG" jayjg@hotmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:43:39 -0500 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: ArbCom - too attached to 'equal treatment'?
From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com
Someone who is scared to take a complaint to the arbitration committee because he may then be held accountable for his own actions is, it seems to me, missing the point.
Missing the point indeed; the point being that few people come out looking completely spotless under the kind of forensic examination that sometimes happens in the inevitable counter-suits, combined with the fear that ArbCom will feel it needs to sanction both parties, so that it appears "fair". Again, I'm not saying this is actually happening, but that there is a perception that this is happening, which discourages people from getting involved.
Jay.
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