Policy violations (was [WikiEN-l] Re: Violation ofblockingpolicyby user "40277")

[James Marshall]

But I have to respectfully disagree with both of you here-- do you really
want to forbid newbies from contributing to anything controversial?

I still think things would have gone much better if the other users had
not abused their power and had otherwise done what they were supposed to,
_especially being more experienced users_.  I think it would have been OK
EVEN IF the subject is controversial.  There are ways of dealing with
controversy that don't involve censorship or inappropriate banning.  And
I'm sorry, I STILL don't see that I did anything wrong, at least nothing
that wasn't done MORE wrong by the others (e.g. I could have started a
discussion, but so could the others, and they had more reason to start
one).

Just because I contribute something controversial does not give license to
the others to behave the way they did.  Does it?

???

James



On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, sannse wrote:

s> Charles worte:
s>
s> > > I think this case has said a lot about our community reaction to
s> newbies,
s> > > I'm seriously considering starting a Save the Newbie campaign here.
s> > >
s> > > --sannse
s>
s> > To be fair (though matters may have gone wrong here) newbies also need
s> > saving from well-intentioned advice to start their time on WP, not logged
s> > in, adding comments on American political topics that are divisive and
s> > concerning divisiveness.  The deep end.
s>
s> Yes, such advice to take things easy at first would be part of the
s> policies of the RSPCN (with it's US branch of SPCN of course).  Those
s> who slide easily into the Wikipedia culture tend to be those who start
s> by writing NPOV articles about fluffy kittens rather than those jumping
s> in to the more... ummm... /active/ areas of the 'pedia.
s>
s> --sannse
s>
s> do we /have/ an article on [[Fluffy kitten]]s?
s>