Wikipedia talk:Bullies are not welcome

Patronizing
"Bullying isn't nice" - reminds me of elementary school. Even then it was laughable. Reading the essay over, I highly doubt it will convert any "cyber-bullies" into nice people who "respect cultural differences".  Λυδ α cιτγ  23:12, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * sofixit It's an essay ;-) GDonato (talk) 23:22, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Aye, but even the title seems silly to me. A clear-cut policy seems the best way to deal with Wikipedia harassment - and the solution that is least likely to be laughed at by the harassers.  Λυδ α cιτγ  04:04, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

To make this describe actual practice on Wikipedia, there should probably be a clause "...except when the group of bullies is a favored clique on Wikipedia, in which case they are free to bully at will, and it is the target of their bullying that is subject to getting blocked or banned." *Dan T.* 15:54, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Unnecessary
There isn't really much point in this essay. Open and aggressive harassment of a user is blockable under WP:NPA and WP:HAR, which also defines and prohibits wikistalking. As such, the important parts of this essay are fairly redundant. Also, although this may sound like a strange comment, I don't think it's 100% correct to equate "racism, sexism and homophobia" with "bullying". Making explicitly racist, sexist or homophobic attacks on a specific user violates WP:NPA; however, holding abstract racist, sexist or homophobic opinions is not in itself blockable. If someone posts on their userpage "I don't like gays, and I think a woman's place is in the home", then we can't indef-block them for that, any more than we would for identifying as a liberal, or a communist, or an environmentalist. Harassment, on the other hand, absolutely should result in an indef-block - but we already have a perfectly good policy on that. So why do we need this essay? Waltontalk 15:39, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I've redirected this to Harassment. If there is a feeling that this is inappropriate, I'll bring it to WP:MFD.  Mango juice talk 00:41, 22 August 2007 (UTC)