[Wikipedia-l] Repost: clear guidelines and the power to enforce them

[Toby Bartels]

Tom Parmenter wrote:

>People are confusing the Wikipedia (particularly talk pages) with the
>Usenet.  If non-participating "moderators" were willing to jump in,
>delete nonsense from talk pages, and enforce civility, even incoherent
>or ideological contributors can learn NPOV.

I like the idea that people come from outside the discussion
to impose civility in this fashion by moderating.
We don't have to give people extraordinary powers for us to do this.
(To a large extent, this is what Ed Poor has been doing the whole time.)
These actions would be based on moral authority, not police force.


-- Toby