Well, you'll get no argument from me that I wish people wouldn't be gratuitously rude. (Or use that word; nothing good ever comes of that.)
I am certainly not endorsing that. At the same time, some of the most disruptive editors I've seen were unfailingly polite.
Todd
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 3:40 PM Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com wrote:
Framing it as "competence over politeness" is convenient for the people who do not want the latter and imagine they are the former.
It also insults the editors who have managed to do both. I know an en.wp editor who has dozens of FAs and somehow managed the herculean feat of not referring to anyone on Wikipedia using the c-word.
Framing it as "the culture of the community" leaves out of the community all of us who are sick of this behavior, including long-time veterans of the community like myself (fifteen years), and community victims of harassment asking T&S for help.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 1:58 PM Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
"Before asking why WMF has banned an admin (and if Fram was not an admin, all these discussions would not have been done), we need to ask ourselves why we (other users) have allowed such an attitude without intervening to stop it."
First, if Fram were a well-known editor but not an admin, yes, there absolutely would be such a discussion. But as to why, the answer, very simply, is that the English Wikipedia community values competence over politeness, and probably always will. That is part of the culture of the community, and the WMF has no right to override that.
Todd
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 6:46 AM camelia boban camelia.boban@gmail.com wrote:
I quote David and Isaac. Harassment is a serious thing and hounding another user is out of any
wiki
behavior. Before asking why WMF has banned an admin (and if Fram was not an
admin,
all these discussions would not have been done), we need to ask
ourselves
why we (other users) have allowed such an attitude without intervening
to
stop it.
Camelia
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Il giorno ven 14 giu 2019 alle ore 14:32 Mister Thrapostibongles < thrapostibongles@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Fæ
[...] the pre-existing understanding that the WMF do not replace
existing and perfectly adequate community agreed procedures for banning bad behaviour on our projects.
Unfortunately, there is ample evidence that the existing English
Wikipedia
community processes are not "perfectly adequate" for that purpose.
If the English Wikipedia's policies are not fit for purpose, or implementation of policy is incompetent, we need a much bigger discussion
Indeed. Unfortunately the tone of the discussion here and at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_...
suggests that the requisite discussion is now less, not more, likely to
happen or
be
productive.
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