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I'm trying to find better ways of dealing with Tendentious editing, Disruptive editing, and the all-to-common bullying within Wikipedia. I'm doing this in response to my own involvement into the events surrounding the Ilena and Fyslee arbitration. I feel the arbitration should have never have taken place, and that it did only because numerous editors let the problems get so very out of hand for such a very long time that there was no other choice. I'm looking for some preventative measures. First and foremost in my mind is getting editors to be more respectful of each other by being more respectful of the numerous policies and guidelines related to civility. Refactoring is a tool I learned after the ArbCom had already started. It's a very useful tool, but not widely enough accepted to be the solution I had hoped for. I'm still trying, though I'm getting quite disgusted at the situation. (originally written for my talk page --Ronz 21:28, 9 April 2007(UTC))

One thing I'm tried recently with a great deal of success is to stop assuming that editors will be civil. Not that I don't ask them to be civil, I just don't want to be pulled into drawn-out discussions about it. Wikipedia does very little to enforce civility, so we should all expect that some editors here will be incivil. --Ronz 23:35, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

User:KillerChihuahua#Soapbox | WP:GRIEF | WP:FANATIC

Could I suggest that mundane editorial disagreements are most likely to resolve quickly and productively when editors observe the following:

• Remain polite per WP:Civility.
• Solicit feedback and ask questions.
• Keep the discussion focused. Concentrate on a small set of related matters and resolve them to the satisfaction of all parties.
• Focus on the subject rather than on the personalities of the editors.
• Assume good faith of other editors.

I hope you find this reminder helpful.

Ronz thanks for the email - my intention was not self-promote. I have a full description of who I am unlike the following entry for Knowledge Management Software whereby you can see that the originator of this topic registers as a no name and is able to self-promote a company (can you guess where the IP leads to - same state as TheBrain.. hmmmm). Nevertheless, I will abide however I cannot prevent other KM/self-service related professionals and customers in this industry from adding vendors to this arena or setting up a new link to a topic called List of Self-Service software vendors (like you can find in Content Management SoftwareStill thanks for the input User:Topiarydan