On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jaska Zedlik jz53zc@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 21:27, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
The question was about a list which should exist somewhere (at Meta).
Thank you, but not obligatory a list. I meant any form, even a number of rules written on this mailing list. Otherwise we (may) have a situation when, for instance, a user puts some inflammatory or divisive content on their user page and administrators are unable to delete it, until a policy which regulates this is adopted locally.
Even english wikipedia was close to allow divisive and inflammatory content on an user page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/User:Visitant...
Becuase, ¡hey everyone is allowed to write about wikipedia on his userpage even if it's attacking other project even if account makes no other edits in years policy allows it and it's not about english wikipedia sysops
thankfully there are still admins with common sense. But the point is even in Wikipedias with a "complete" set of rules it's not enough to counteract trolls precisely because so many rules create so many loopholes for wikilawyers and rule worshippers
From the deleted user page:
"Informe sobre la censura existente en la Wikipedia hispana
"El precio de la libertad es la eterna vigilancia"
¿Quién vigila a los vigilantes? (Quis custodiet ipsus custodes)"
Hard to know, without knowing Spanish, and doing some serious investigation whether this is an expose of a serious problem on the Spanish Wikipedia or just green ink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_ink
Thing is, there are always going to be problems, and the problems and issues on all Wikipedias are going to be similar, thus common principles apply.
Fred