Charles Matthews wrote:
Indeed. Why dice with death and take the moral low ground in revert wars, when there is the more satisfying approach of the uber-troll: get yourself personally-attacked on the Talk page, and get your opponent (if briefly) thrown off the wiki?
Perhaps Charles is being facetious. But if this is a serious position that anyone holds, I must express my profound opposition to this approach.
I do not believe that those editors who care about the quality of the content of articles -- that is, all editors -- should have to wait, or stoop to manipulating another editor, until the other editor makes a personal attack, to then get that editor thrown off Wikipedia.
We should not be relying on the no personal attack policy as a way of enforcing quality content.
If an editor is obstructing improvement of the article, or is damaging the article, we need an effective mechanism to deal with that problem, directly.
Steve
Steven L. Rubenstein Associate Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology Bentley Annex Ohio University Athens, Ohio 45701