Captain Occam wrote:As a way of documenting how the WP:CIVIL policy is ignored about as often as it's followed, I think it would be useful to have a thread where we list some of the most extreme, offensive, and/or creative personal attacks we've seen editors engage in at Wikipedia. Bonus points if there were no consequences for the editors who made them.
Administrative participant and drama board regular "Beyond My Ken" told an editor recently "You're a total, loser, pure and simple, and you've sullied my clean and empty talk page. I pity vi.wiki if you are one of those in charge. I think I'll have to reconsider Eric Corbett's position about shutting down the lesser Wikipedias." (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =589261932.) Quite some arrogance and incredibly ethnocentric to characterize Vietnamese Wikipedia as "lesser."
That fine arbitrator Beeblebrox, embodiment of Wikipedia's refined and loftiest administrative culture, told a common editor "FUCK OFF YOU PETTY FASCIST IDIOT" (caps from original) but Risker erased that one from the record, so as not to damage Beebs' prospects as he sought more powers and Arbcom candidacy.
Administrator Bwilkins infamously gloated on some poor blocked editor's talkpage "may you rot in the hell that is eternal block," but I guess that's more a curse than a personal attack. Ah you know about that one Captain Occam (
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =566080466).
I suppose it must be pretty easy to find an outrageous insult by a momentary editor who is quickly blocked. The remarkable ones are by the habitual and long-time editors who drop insults and walk away without warning or punishment.
EDIT: Looking at it again, Bwilkins actually says to Shadowcrow "fuck you" "and may you rot in the hell that is eternal block." So even worse than first appeared. I don't know how long the block persisted but Shadowcrow is editing again now. So it didn't turn out to be eternal.