Wikipedia talk:Cyberbullying

Moved into Wikipedia

After discussion on my talk page which spread from another topic entirely, I have been encouraged by another editor to move this essay into Wikipedia: space for discussion, modification and the general hurly burly of Wikipedia policy formation. I should probably declare here that I am not wedded to any wording or concept within it. It is here simply because I believe it is a subject that Wikipedia needs to address and formulate policy and procedures on. Whatever final form it takes will be better than no form at all. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 09:23, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Great work! --Tito Dutta (talk) 11:17, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm grateful for the compliment, and accept it with pleasure. Even so the piece is not yet in any manner adequate for enshrining into policy. It needs the attention of other editors in order to become a truly useful and usable instrument. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 11:27, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

Overreacting to vandalism?

This essay seems to me like an overreaction to everyday vandalism. While of course cyberbullying is a bad thing, posting derogatory comments about someone on Wikipedia doesn't necessarily qualify - it can just be typical trolling/vandalism. Edits like the examples on these pages don't really need to be suppressed, and aren't what the suppression tool was designed for; the standard response of revert, block, ignore should be sufficient (along with protecting the page if vandalism is a persistent problem). They certainly wouldn't usually justify contacting the school, except perhaps in the most severe cases.

(I was also thinking that the examples of 'bullying' edits given on this page could raise WP:BEANS issues, but then again the people who would make them are likely to do so regardless of whether or not this page exists - we're hardly giving them the idea.) Robofish (talk) 22:56, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

This makes sense, unlike the Wikibullying page

I read through this and it makes sense. My question then is why doesn't the Wikibullying page start with the comments made here and then add to them to make it refer specifically to Wikipedia? They seem to have missed the point on what cyberbullying really is. The inclusion of a section about not being allowed to ask someone who controls an article to stop controlling it seems particularly ridiculous, as such a person would in most cases be the bully, not the victim, and it seems in general that the Wikibullying page either has it around the wrong way, or just has it wrong. I'd hope that they can redo it, starting with this page, and then see if they can get something a bit more accurate come of it. KrampusC (talk) 16:31, 28 December 2014 (UTC)