Sascha Noyes wrote:

I advocate the enforcement of the agreed-upon rules that are specified in [[Wikipedia:Policy]], which happens to include [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]. Your characterisation of the desire of wikipedians that personal attacks should halt as 'Mommy, he called me xxx" and "whinging" is both condescending and illogical, given that "no personal attacks" happens to be a wikipedia policy. I have quoted it before, and I shall quote it again (from [[Wikipedia:No personal attacks]]):

I'm in 100% agreement with this. The reason why we have policies like 'no personal attacks' is because allowing personal attacks drives away good contributors and creates a hostile working environment where reason is sacrificed in favor of bullying (thus the most persistant troll wins in article content disputes). This goes directly against our goal of creating NPOV and accurate content.

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)