[WikiEN-l] Cla68 blocked for asking question

[Jimmy Wales]

Durova wrote:
> These complaints are classic straw man rhetoric: take a small portion of the
> actual situation, pretend that's the sole cause of a result, and bemoan in
> various fora that the some action was unjustified.  I see through the game.
> There are times to put one's foot down and that time was today.  Wikipedia
> has been entirely too lenient about this type of disruption, with the result
> that when one brief and overdue block occurs a cluster of people are shocked
> by it.

This is exactly right.  The key is to look at the pattern of negative 
disruption over a long period of time, rather than looking at any one 
incident in isolation.

There are several users who need to find a new hobby by this metric.  I 
am hoping that a few of them will chose it of their own volition.  It is 
time to bring back the notion of WikiLove, and the idea of congeniality 
and the recollection that we are a charitable project to do good... and 
stop the use of Wikipedia by people who are interested in little more 
than muckraking and harassing.

> How hard can it be to find reliable sources for an article?  When you locate
> them, discuss them maturely.  Wikipedia isn't your water cooler.  Neither is
> this list.

Exactly.

--Jimbo