On 5/16/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@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