User:Andrewa/A personal plea
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 | This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia has given up on NPA, but I have not and I ask you not to either |
If I've linked from your user talk page to here, it's probably because I think you've transgressed wp:NPA.
But on the other hand, I must admit that NPA is dead in the water at present. In practice, personal attacks are only discouraged, let alone sanctioned, if they are blatantly uncivil. Even admins indulge in them, and without risk of criticism. Civility is certainly part of wp:5P4, but it's not all of it. It doesn't go nearly as far as NPA was intended to go, and isn't nearly as easily applied.
So there is absolutely no threat of sanctions here! It would be an empty threat in any case.
But I ask you to consider adopting NPA as it is written and clearly intended. I think it would improve Wikipedia.
In my opinion, personal attacks however mild never improve Wikipedia. See User:Andrewa/Rules, rules, rules#No personal attacks for more on this.
It is entirely your decision. I just ask you to consider it. TIA, and thanks for reading this.