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Question: Scope[edit]

I have a quick question about the scope of this category. The descriptions cites an ARBCOM resolution that says:

Throughout the project, breaches of the expected level of decorum are common. These violations of the community's standards of conduct are unevenly, and often ineffectively, enforced.

From my reading of this resolution, there are two problems associated with the enforcement of civility — unevenness and ineffectiveness — but this category seems to be focussing only on the unevenness. Is that deliberate? If so, why? Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 20:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is enough concern about the uneven enforcement of civility to warrant a category of Wikipedians who wish to improve even-ness. Civility is a pillar of Wikipedia, after all.
There are categories of Wikipedians who focus on other pillars, such as the league of copy-editors, etc. (The title "even enforcement" was chosen from the ArbCom ruling to be NPOV and to avoid any appearance of partisanship: There have been two editors who have noted that "even enforcement" need not meet the "brilliant prose" criterion of FAs.)
The resolution mentions many issues, some of which could motivate other groups of Wikipedians to form---for example, "Wikipedians working towards efficacious enforcement of civility" (or most meet, "Wikipedians working towards even and efficacious enforcement of civility", which would intersect the two categories, or "Wikipedians working towards efficacious or even enforcement of civility", their join). Kiefer.Wolfowitz 20:48, 7 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Why just even enforcement of civility, why not even enforcement of every rule? Yogesh Khandke (talk) 03:44, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'd imagine it's along the same reason why there are specific WikiProjects, instead of just a WikiProject that supports every article. - SudoGhost 03:47, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]