There IS a limit to what Wikipedia can accomplish!

[Anroth]

So sayeth Jimbo!

"The inherent pettiness, greed, and selfishness of mankind." With all due respect to our excellent engineers, I do not think fixing that is within their capabilities.

I dont know, there are plenty of technical solutions to stop people being a dick. Or at least helping to cut it down heavily. There are even more social/administrative solutions....

[Poetlister]

So sayeth Jimbo!

"The inherent pettiness, greed, and selfishness of mankind." With all due respect to our excellent engineers, I do not think fixing that is within their capabilities.

I dont know, there are plenty of technical solutions to stop people being a dick. Or at least helping to cut it down heavily. There are even more social/administrative solutions....

It's very simple. You start an RfC on the subject, and at the end of it you create a policy WP:NOPETTINESSGREEDORSELFISHNESS. Anybody who flouts the policy can be reprimanded by Arbcom. Problem solved!

[Zoloft]

So sayeth Jimbo!

"The inherent pettiness, greed, and selfishness of mankind." With all due respect to our excellent engineers, I do not think fixing that is within their capabilities.

I dont know, there are plenty of technical solutions to stop people being a dick. Or at least helping to cut it down heavily. There are even more social/administrative solutions....

It's very simple. You start an RfC on the subject, and at the end of it you create a policy WP:NOPETTINESSGREEDORSELFISHNESS. Anybody who flouts the policy can be reprimanded by Arbcom. Problem solved!

Anybody who can be accused of flouting the policy can be templated on their talk page by a thirteen-year-old troll, pushed out of the way by a paid editor, dragged to AN/I, topic-banned by three meatpuppets coordinating on IRC, reprimanded by Arbcom, and finally blocked indef. Problem solved!