And the point here is not about "fighting with a policeman". The point is that two people often fight with *each other*, and when the police are called, they examine both people and provided there are no bruises or broken bones, they basically tell them to cool it and stay apart.
They don't take them to prison, and they don't exile them from the island. -----Original Message----- From: Alvaro García <[email protected]> To: English Wikipedia <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:28 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How to raise the tone of the wiki Oh yeah. And if someone, in real life, goes and starts fighting with a policeman for some reason, well, maybe he's having a bad day, let him go! -- Alvaro On 13-02-2009, at 1:02, Al Tally <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Marc Riddell > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Alex, there is nothing "vague" about incivility, you know it when >> you see >> it >> and feel it. And, a person can have as many "bad days" as they >> want; but on >> those days they should not be posting on the wiki. Exercise some >> self-control or take it somewhere else. >> >> Marc Riddell >> > > "You know it when you see it" - that's vague enough for me! > > Often people don't know they're having a bad day, and may respond more > harshly than they would normally. Not their fault, it's hum an nature. > > -- > Alex > (User:Majorly) > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
