Talk:Harassment

Removed the references to the "Support and Safety" team as currently it is identified as the Trust and Safety task force https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety#Trust_&_Safety_task_force

Definition open ended, and no indication of who decides on what is harassment in any given case

The definition given states that harassment "may include but is not limited to" a list of things that most people would accept as being harassment. The problem will come when one of those things that is not on the list is reported.

• Who will decide whether it is harassment?
• What standards will be applied?
• What society's norms will be applied?
• What recourse will the person accused of such harassment have to avoid unfair discrimination?
• What checks and balances will prevent gaming the system?

Please ping with reply. Cheers, · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 16:10, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Harassment vs. Challenging administration

I think we should add a section on the difference between harassment and challenging administration. For context, what is harassment if done by a regular user should be considered harassment if done by an administrator, and same for challenging in a non-harassing way, all with appropriate justification. This is to prevent technical power dynamics from dictating everything, and so that just because a user is unprivileged doesn't mean they automatically lose. Faster than Thunder (talk) 14:28, 2 August 2025 (UTC)