[WikiEN-l] Fairness in Wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

Ron Ritzman wrote:

>On 4/1/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>A clearer-than-it-would-be example: imagine there is a good-faith
>>contributor who just causes unbelivable amounts of strife. They mean
>>well, they make good-faith contributions, they haven't done anything
>>*wrong* per se...
>>    
>>
>How would you define "good faith" in this context? I would say that if
>a contributor continues to do "X" after several good faith "please
>don't do X" requests from reasonable people, then that person is no
>longer a "good faith contributor" and any of his contributions with
>"X" in them are not "good faith contributions".
>
To a point, yes.  It depends just as much on how  the "reasonable" 
person is presenting  himself.  As long as the "reasonable" is just 
reverting without  engaging in any kind of meaningful coversation, or 
just protecting a POV perhaps neither party is acting in good faith.

Ec