Wikipedia talk:Responding to threats of harm
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[edit] Merge
There is significant overlap with Wikipedia:Potentially suicidal users. I suggest merging and upgrading the result to guideline or policy. - Jehochman Talk 17:21, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- Agreed that the high overlap probably calls for a merger, although I think a title along the lines of "threats of violence" encompasses more scenarios than "threats of suicide," if we go that route (which seems to suggest merging to here, rather than from here). – Luna Santin (talk) 19:34, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- I believe that would be the case. We need to explain to the editors of the article that we like their work so much we want to generalize it. That page may need to be trimmed. The goal should be to make it sleek enough that it can be promoted to policy. - Jehochman Talk 19:58, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- In order to reduce the WP:BEANS component when I wrote a related essay I referred to an even broader subject: real world emergencies. DurovaCharge! 22:52, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- Endorse merge (which way, doesn't matter to me), and possibly suggest renaming to something such as Durova suggested. Perhaps "Responding to threats of harm", or some such, which would cover both self-harm, and threats to harm others. While I generally agree that the majority of such posts are likely nothing more than vandalism, I also think that we are not in a position to assess the validity of them, nor should we be expected to, or held accountable for such actions. Any threat should be treated seriously, passed on to local authorities if possible, and let them deal with the validity of the threat. Ariel♥Gold 13:41, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
- In order to reduce the WP:BEANS component when I wrote a related essay I referred to an even broader subject: real world emergencies. DurovaCharge! 22:52, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- I believe that would be the case. We need to explain to the editors of the article that we like their work so much we want to generalize it. That page may need to be trimmed. The goal should be to make it sleek enough that it can be promoted to policy. - Jehochman Talk 19:58, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Closing the merge
There's been a long-standing merge proposal between Wikipedia:Potentially suicidal users and Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm. I've drafted a merged page at User:Luna Santin/sandbox (permalink). Feel free to modify the page or to suggest any desired changes. If there's no feedback within a reasonable timeframe, I'll complete the merge. I'll be posting this identical notice to both talk pages, and will try to check both for comments; realistically, though, it may help if we direct comments to Wikipedia talk:Responding to threats of harm, where old discussion on the merge proposal took place. – Luna Santin (talk) 03:49, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
- Waited long enough, perhaps? I've gone ahead with the merge. – Luna Santin (talk) 08:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
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- I have done a history merge on the two pages. Georgewilliamherbert (talk) 05:21, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedia:ThreatsOfViolence
There's a new proposal at the above link, intended to become policy if at all possible - some work is required to sift through the intentions of this, and that page to separate what fits best as policy, and what as essay - there's also WP:FIRE to consider, as well as the pages linked above.
I think there's some important material here, but we do seem to have some unnecessary redundancy, and I think one essay, and one policy will probably best cover all aspects of this sensitive area.... all help is most welcome! - Privatemusings (talk) 05:56, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
