Wikipedia:Civility police
Page is a mess, fails WP:BITE and other guidelines on so many levels. :| TelCoNaSpVe :| 04:35, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- Comment - how exactly, pray tell, does this "fail WP:BITE"? Strange Passerby (talk • contribs) 05:04, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete reads like an attack page: although it does not name names it nonetheless takes a battleground mentality and seems overtly hostile in nature. It would be inappropriate to userfy this because we'd be back here in a few weeks most likely. --NYKevin @903, i.e. 20:40, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete civility police and its page ... wait, am I there too? Then just delete the page. East of Borschov 21:52, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete, obviously. This is the Nazi-photo guy again; we've had this discussion already. – iridescent 19:53, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
- Delete. In general, essays deserve considerable tolerance in order to avoid censoring opinion, but this short attack piece provides no useful contribution to the civility debate. Geometry guy 01:39, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Expresses a valid opinion. "Civility" police are a real problem that won't be resolved anytime soon if we're censoring this stuff. Access Denied – talk to me 03:51, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- Keep and fix any Nazi-shite through normal editing. I see the backstory and author of this, but the issue of the feckin' civility coppers is real, and we ought not be deleting essays as it amounts to a step on the road to burning books, then people... and, ya, I know what Mike said. FWIW, the author should have been indef'd at the last ANI; should have said so.
I’m sorry if I offend you. But I don’t swear just for the hell of it. You see, I figure that language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we ought to use all the words we’ve got. Besides, there are damned few words that everybody understands.
— From Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
- Cheers, Jack Merridew 04:21, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- Keep Although I don't agree with it, the essay expresses a perspective held by a fair number of editors. Not to go all WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS but precedent is that essays are okay even if they are critical of particular groups of editors (see this recent example). Instead of deleting it altogether fix the problems. Short Brigade Harvester Boris (talk) 05:16, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- Question: Could an admin please revdel the first revision of the page as it contains another Nazi Image? Thanks. Access Denied – talk to me 05:51, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
- I would strongly disagree with a revision deletion; what are your reasons for wanting it it? "Containing Nazi images" is not one of the criteria listed at WP:CFRD. I think that this tool is used far to much for innocuous stuff that people just don't like. Buddy431 (talk) 06:16, 22 November 2010 (UTC) (signing late)