Wikipedia talk:Mind your own business

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Geo Swan in topic Sorry, I think this essay contains bad advice

Control freaks

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We might want to consider putting something in here about not being a "control freak." Adivising an editor to step away from an article/topic is okay in some situations, such as where one has a COI, for example, but it is not okay to control an editor from editing an article just because you don't like something in their edits, think you are better, etc. This coincides with WP:OWN.Qxukhgiels (talk) 14:55, 6 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, I think this essay contains bad advice

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Various wikidocuments advise contributors to refrain from responding in kind when they feel they are being insulted, harrassed, etc. Aren't contributors advised to rely on uninvolved third parties to notice genuine harrassment, and weigh in to tell the offender(s) to fly right?

Well, if uninvolved third parties followed this advice, won't those contributors who took the advice of those wikidocuments to refrain from responding in kind, be left waiting forever for uninvolved third parties to come to their defence? Geo Swan (talk) 17:34, 7 February 2021 (UTC)Reply