[WikiEN-l] Freedom of Speech in WP

[David Gerard]

On 31/01/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
<charles.r.matthews at 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.