Wikipedia:Beware of the tigers
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 | This page in a nutshell: Although we respect editors who feel very passionately about a topic, they often disrupt the project. |
The following was posted by William Pietri to welcome back a banned editor on a hotly disputed article. Several people have praised it as embodying perfectly the Wikipedian ideals, especially this excerpt:
Pietri's posting is an excellent example of staying cool when dealing with people with strong opinions. Another posting on WikiEN-l is also particularly pertinent:
It is inescapably true that, on occasion, all of us fall prey to that particular conceit.
Some suggestions for the passionate
- Or: Beware of the Tigers; William Pietri's comment in its entirety: