Guild Wars Wiki:Be civil

This page is currently a guideline draft. If the draft is expanded and consensus is reached on the talk page, it will become an accepted guideline.

Be civil towards other users on Guild Wars Wiki. Incivility is roughly defined here as behavior that causes an atmosphere of greater conflict and stress.

Examples

Petty examples of incivility:

• Aggressive rudeness.
• Belittling contributors because of their language skills or word choice.
• Calling someone a liar, or accusing him/her of slander or libel (even if true).
• Ill-considered accusations of impropriety of one kind or another.
• Judgmental tone in edit summaries ("snipped rambling crap").

More serious examples of incivility:

• Indecent suggestions.
• Slander or libel.
• Personal attacks, such as harrassment.
• Racial, ethnic, sexual, and religious slurs and disparaging analogies.
• Vandalism.

Suggestions for responding to incivility

• Respond with greater civility and respect. Many editors will moderate their tone to match yours.
• Ignore it. Operate as if the offensive comments do not exist.
• Walk away. Edit elsewhere for a while and return when tempers have cooled.
• Remember that you don't have to like an editor as a person to appreciate that they're also working for the good of the project.
• For clear cases of serious or ongoing incivility, consider making a comment on the offender's talk page, and, if the behaviour continues, arbitration.