[Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility atwikinews [en] <warning: contains rant>

[Lars Aronsson]

Phil Nash wrote:

> who have issues with working with less-gifted editors, but who 
> fail the behavioural standards, and it's always (in my 
> experience) a difficult dichotomy between kicking these people 
> out of the door and culturing their behaviour so as to benefit 
> the encyclopedia. On balance, I feel that these editors are too 
> much trouble to be worth expending effort on;

People who get carried away by their own feelings, should better 
attend to tasks where their feelings matter less.  If an otherwise 
productive user tends to get involved in POV/NPOV fights, perhaps 
they should try to proofread scanned books in Wikisource instead 
of writing articles on controversial topics in Wikipedia.  All 
their energy can be better used when the only goal is to get the 
letters and words right, instead of getting the opinions right.

Next time, instead of banning them from Wikipedia, see if you can 
recruit them to Wikisource.


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