[WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.

Stephen Streater sbstreater at mac.com
Fri Oct 6 10:11:34 UTC 2006


On 6 Oct 2006, at 11:00, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com wrote:

> "Tony Jacobs" wrote

>>  Why
>> doesn't ArbCom come down on admins who fail to respect  
>> contributors?  Why
>> isn't that a high priority?
>
> Why don't we get the cases brought that mean we could do that? We  
> have a clear policy on civility. Some people do reckon that long  
> service gives them some rights in how they talk to others. They are  
> certainly wrong about that, and should note well that ArbCom  
> doesn't have binding precedents, and may well up the tariff of  
> punishment for shooting off your mouth. As far as I can see, this  
> causes a large outcry when it is proposed, but it may well happen.

I've been meaning to bring a case for some time,
but no one is ever uncivil to me!



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