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Civility is appropriate on all user pages. Wikipedia provides user pages to facilitate communication among participants in its project to build an encyclopedia, and if user page activity becomes disruptive to the community or gets in the way of the task of building an encyclopedia, it must be modified to prevent disruption.
With civility, respect and a sense of safety and collegiality between all concerned is created, producing ample room for negotiation. Incivility may put editors on the defensive, may create closed-mindedness to multiple, alternative ideas, and can help to prevent a consensus from forming.
to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
Oshkosh Civility Project core team member Michael Rust discusses keeping the rules of conduct simple to make it easier to live by them.
Civil discourse is the practice of deliberating about matters of public concern in a way that seeks to expand knowledge and promote understanding. The word "civil" relates directly to civic in the sense of being oriented toward public life, [1] [2] and less directly to civility, in the sense of mere politeness.
How do we define civility? Webster’s dictionary: Politeness, consideration, courtesy. Google: Courtesy, politeness “Choosing Civilty” by P.M. Forni, Ph.D., and the book on which the Oshkosh ...
Productive discussion demands going beyond civility: while civility is very important, four other patterns of behavior are just as important to reaching a productive outcome: 1. Acknowledge precedent. Ignoring precedent, intentionally or not, leads to repeating old arguments, which can frustrate everyone. When participating in a discussion, you ...
This Civility Project was built to help raise awareness of civility, by providing social conversations, civility resources, multimedia education, and information for anyone to access. [ 38 ] From April 30 to May 1 of 2019, an Urgency of Civility Conference was hosted in Washington D.C. at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial .