 | This page in a nutshell: Participate in a respectful and civil way. Do not ignore the positions and conclusions of others. Try to discourage others from being uncivil, and avoid upsetting people wherever possible. |
Civility is a code for the conduct of editing on all Wikipedias. Wikipedians define incivility roughly as personally targeted behavior that causes an atmosphere of conflict and stress. Our code of civility states plainly that people must act with civility toward one another.
Our Wikipedia community has by experience developed an informal hierarchy of core principles, the most important being that articles be written from a neutral point of view. After that we request a reasonable degree of civility towards others. "Civility" is a principle that we can apply to online conduct, and it is a reasonable way to distinguish acceptable conduct from unacceptable conduct.