I think it does us all a disservice to say that dispute resolution isn't part of Wikipedia administration. It's part of the editing skills expected of an editor on Wikipedia. Skill in resolving disputes is unevenly distributed but a good editor is one who can handle himself--and other people--well in a dispute, and a bad editor is one whose skills of persuasion are inadequate to support his actions. An administrator has to make tough decisions, for which he must possess the mental agility to prepare himself, the consequences of which will test his resilience and responsiveness daily.
An administrator who can't hack dispute resolution is about as much use as a chocolate teapot
On 1/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
I think it does us all a disservice to say that dispute resolution isn't part of Wikipedia administration. It's part of the editing skills expected of an editor on Wikipedia. Skill in resolving disputes is unevenly distributed but a good editor is one who can handle himself--and other people--well in a dispute, and a bad editor is one whose skills of persuasion are inadequate to support his actions. An administrator has to make tough decisions, for which he must possess the mental agility to prepare himself, the consequences of which will test his resilience and responsiveness daily.
An administrator who can't hack dispute resolution is about as much use as a chocolate teapot
See the backlog at WP:CP? I don't care if the admins fixing it are any good at disspute resolution.
-- geni
geni wrote:
See the backlog at WP:CP? I don't care if the admins fixing it are any good at disspute resolution.
-- geni
I dunno, I'm not so bad at dispute resolution, but I'm much happier with the mop and bucket.
PSST -- any other admins who have some free time, WP:CP still needs a lot of work
Tony Sidaway wrote:
I think it does us all a disservice to say that dispute resolution isn't part of Wikipedia administration. It's part of the editing skills expected of an editor on Wikipedia. Skill in resolving disputes is unevenly distributed but a good editor is one who can handle himself--and other people--well in a dispute, and a bad editor is one whose skills of persuasion are inadequate to support his actions. An administrator has to make tough decisions, for which he must possess the mental agility to prepare himself, the consequences of which will test his resilience and responsiveness daily.
An administrator who can't hack dispute resolution is about as much use as a chocolate teapot
But at least a chocolate teapot is edible :)