Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Goals

Editing Goals ( edit this section )
 * 1) Stay calm and maintain a professional demeanor. Patience is key.
 * 2) Avoid conflict, even when you know you are right. Give other editors the benefit of the doubt.
 * 3) Assume good faith toward your collaborating editors, if not their edits. Assuming good faith is not intended to be self-destructive, but to avoid conflict.
 * 4) Ignore attacks. Not easily done, but a real timesaver. Attacks and counter-attacks are hazardous to your mental health. The best and most frequently offered administrative advice is to move on, and, if absolutely necessary, return the next day.
 * 5) Don't take it personally. Editors make mistakes. Communicating our thoughts is not easily done on the Internet.
 * 6) Don't isolate your interpretation. There are many interpretations other than yours. What you read might NOT be what was meant.
 * 7) Don't think of editing as a competition. WE are cohorts, collaborating to improve our thing.
 * 8) Don't edit when angry or upset. Stay off the article and talk page in question. Never let your anger or frustration be the deciding factor in your behavior.
 * 9) Don't forget the human dimension of Wikipedia editing. Keep things in perspective. There is a real, living and breathing, sensitive human on the other side of the discussion.