User:William M. Connolley/For me/On civility

General
Wikipedia has a policy on civility, WP:CIVIL. It is often ignored, and this is to the detriment of wikipedia.

Am I incivil?
People seem to have that impression.

Misc
Examples of incivility by me. Please add to the "proposed" section, with diffs. I'll refactor as appropriate when the discussion concludes.

Proposed

 * 1) Referring to prominent climate skeptics and other wikipedia editors as "septics," which, since it relates to sewage, gives the impression of incivility. :) TheGoodLocust (talk) 05:51, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Accepted

 * 1) None yet.

Rejected

 * 1)  raised by ATren. Repsonse: I called the thread a waste of time, which it was (end of this exchange and link to unredacted version ).

Misc arbcomm-y stuff
A page so offensive it was nominated for deleteion. Twice. And which so annoys some people who really ought to know better that they just can't drop it. How can I possibly defend myself? Exactly as I defended myself there: Per arbcomm decision, editors are allowed to insult blocking admins, and I believe that extends to desyopping too; though in this case since it is backed up by diff this is more robust commentary than insult. I have yet to hear a coherent response to this. My own attitude to the arbcomms decision is that it is a poor one; but until they revoke it we are stuck with it. You might possibly argue that the current arbcomm bears no responsibility for previous decisions; but this is weak; and in any case the recent decision invoked the previous one.