For a serious discussion to happen you will need to disclose some examples. The next step is to move beyond anecdote to see if there is a general problem.
The particular incident Rui brought up has been pretty much explained, but the question remains about have a new or casual editor who commits a faux pas can simply be reminded not to rather than being vilified and being turned away completely. Everyone does dumb stuff, especially at first. The question is whether they learn anything from it.
Fred
Sorry, but I have seen several instances where it certainly doesn't work. Not in a way you would expect in a normal society anyhow.
Regards, Lars Gardenius
Von: "cro0016@gmail.com" cro0016@gmail.com An: Lars Gardenius lars.gardenius@yahoo.de; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: "fredbaud@fairpoint.net" fredbaud@fairpoint.net; Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 14:22 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself
I wouldn't say dispute resolution has never worked, nor does it not work now. It could use improvement, but the same could be said about everything (and like most things, shortages of volunteers make things harder)
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