[WikiEN-l] Neutrality enforcement: a proposal

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Fri May 8 23:54:16 UTC 2009


2009/5/9 Andrew Turvey <andrewrturvey at googlemail.com>:

> I'd suggest for now creating a user template notice and a project of volunteers who could go around looking at editors contributions and putting this template on their pages if appropriate. Let's see the impact that has first, before we start banning people.


*headdesk*

Templating people who are editing problematically never works, ever.

You can word the template however carefully you like (do we have any
under 200 words?) but the message is:

"You are doing something I don't like, this is a threat of blocking."

Result: more sockpuppetry.


- d.



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