Wikipedia has a policy on civility, WP:CIVIL. It is often ignored, and this is to the detriment of wikipedia.

People seem to have that impression.

Examples of incivility by me. Please add to the "proposed" section, with diffs. I'll refactor as appropriate when the discussion concludes.

1. Referring to prominent climate skeptics and other wikipedia editors as "septics," which, since it relates to sewage, gives the impression of incivility. :) TheGoodLocust (talk) 05:51, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

1. None yet.

1. [1] raised by ATren. Repsonse: I called the thread a waste of time, which it was (end of this exchange and link to unredacted version [2]).

A page so offensive it was nominated for deleteion. Twice [3]. And which so annoys some people who really ought to know better that they just can't drop it [4]. How can I possibly defend myself? Exactly as I defended myself there: Per arbcomm decision, editors are allowed to insult blocking admins, and I believe that extends to desyopping too; though in this case since it is backed up by diff this is more robust commentary than insult. I have yet to hear a coherent response to this. My own attitude to the arbcomms decision is that it is a poor one; but until they revoke it we are stuck with it. You might possibly argue that the current arbcomm bears no responsibility for previous decisions; but this is weak; and in any case the recent decision invoked the previous one.

• WP:CIVIL
• WP:NPA
• WP:NOTSPADE