[WikiEN-l] Freedom of Speech in WP

[Stan Shebs]

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.
>   
I agree that it's not really suitable across the entire English-speaking 
world, but ironically, it probably gets the message across best to those 
who are most prone to dickitude. :-)

Stan