On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:24:20 +0100 "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Bollocks it does. This fallacious view seems to be held by many on AFD
- where saying someone's deletion nomination was completely
wrongheaded, misguided and stupid will get some idiot claiming that you have "assumed bad faith" of the nominator. No, I've assumed bad *judgement*, with the nomination as the evidence.
- d.
Of course you are right - you don't "assume bad faith" by calling someone's misguided, wrongheaded and stupid action such. That's a matter of subjective perception (as you call it, evidence).
It is however WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA that prevent you from calling it so.
Hint: You can always call someone a troll. It looks like that's not a personal attack or anything incivil, but a constructive criticism of someone's editing habit.