There are only two iron-clad, unbreakable Wikipedia laws: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and it should be written following the principle of the neutral point of view.
I would add to those two: *Don't infringe copyrights *No personal attacks, which Jimbo indicated could be grounds for a ban.
I agree that all other rules, such as naming conventions etc, shouldn't be regarded as unbreakable. I would suggest calling the above 4 rules 'policies' and the rest 'guidelines' to make the difference clearer.
Tim (Enchanter)
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--- Tim Marklew tmarklew@hotmail.com wrote:
There are only two iron-clad, unbreakable Wikipedia laws: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and it should
be
written following the principle of the neutral
point
of view.
I would add to those two: *Don't infringe copyrights
Agreed.
*No personal attacks, which Jimbo indicated could be grounds for a ban.
I think it's more accurate to say personal threats, as opposed to personal insults.
Stephen G.
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Yeah, because personal attacks (or at least unfounded ones from relative strangers) don't do any harm to the project. NOT!
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Gilbert Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 9:57 AM To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Policies and guidelines
--- Tim Marklew tmarklew@hotmail.com wrote:
There are only two iron-clad, unbreakable Wikipedia laws: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and it should
be
written following the principle of the neutral
point
of view.
I would add to those two: *Don't infringe copyrights
Agreed.
*No personal attacks, which Jimbo indicated could be grounds for a ban.
I think it's more accurate to say personal threats, as opposed to personal insults.
Stephen G.
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Julie Hofmann Kemp wrote:
Yeah, because personal attacks (or at least unfounded ones from relative strangers) don't do any harm to the project. NOT!
Right. I say "no personal attacks" is a baseline rule for any rational endeavor. There are often (too often, in email!) borderline cases and so forth, but even so, personal attacks are just not ever the right thing to do on Wikipedia.
--Jimbo
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