[WikiEN-l] Divisive and Inflammatory Behavior, was CSD T1

[Steve Bennett]

On 5/16/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
> How does this differ from the policy forbidding disruptive behavior? Doesn't
> "divisive and infammatory" constitute a subset of "disruptive"?

Is "disruptive" behaviour banned? It shouldn't be. Upgrading MediaWiki
could be disruptive. An AfD of a popular article is disruptive.
Banning userboxes would be disruptive :)

Rather, unnecessarily or unbeneficially disruptive behaviour should be
discouraged, and not all heated debates fall into those categories. A
passionate debate about a near-featured-article could be quite
beneficial, for example.

However, divisive and inflammatory behaviour is generally disruptive
without having any benefits to the Wikipedia project.

Steve