On 31/01/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote
Terrific! I much prefer the term "Don't be a dick" to "incivility"; can we make the change :-).
Well, no. Why replace a good dictionary word with a profanity? Are you assuming that everyone who edits the English Wikipedia is a native speaker of English, who shares your likes and dislikes? You'd be very wrong about that. In fact the very acceptance of WP:DICK shows a basic level of crassness, if you ask me.
It wasn't - it was shoved over to Meta.
(Then Aphaia tried to delete it because it was particularly offensive if translated into Japanese, apparently.)
- d.