On 5/16/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney(a)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