> It seems from my experience that WP:RD2 is usually interpreted fairly
> narrowly, at least in the cases I've tried to use it. Specifically it
> requires the material to be "grossly" offensive and excludes "'ordinary'
> incivility". In the world of Wikipedia, grossly offensive is a pretty
> high bar it seems. Right now, I have a hard time even convincing people
> that this sort of stuff is incivil, much less worthy of revision
> deletion.
>
> My favorite example is the Talk Page for Rubyfruit Jungle. It took 4
> years, 10 editors, and a couple of edit wars to remove a joke posted by
> an anonymous IP about vaginas smelling like fish.
>
> Ryan Kaldari

It is the responsibility of administrators to apply WP:RD2 fairly and
appropriately.

Fred





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