Category:Eguor Wikipedians

Eguor is rouge spelled backwards. Where rouge editors hail Wikipedia:Ignore all rules or don't know about it because they know no rules; Eguor editors think rogue tactics go both ways. Eguorness means leadership by example and self-regulation. It means doing one's best to reduce frustrations for reasonable editors. Ideally, eguorness also means winning over potential troublemakers so that they become productive Wikipedians.

Another goal of an eguor is to serve as Wikipedia's loyal opposition should any intentional or inadvertent cabal(s) form. Eguorness does not equal disruption or the feeding of trolls, yet it does mean willingness to challenge consensus with polite and topical discussion. Sometimes it means being a gadfly and accepting the criticism which comes with it.

Principles of eguor editors[edit]

• Wikipedia is edited by people from around the world who fall into one of two broad categories;

1. Those who want to enhance the project
2. Those who do not want to help the project or have other motives:
   1. Commercial
   2. Disruption
   3. Unknown

• Editors are human and occasionally make mistakes.
• Although problem users create constant background noise, that shouldn't drown out the voice of an innocent editor who gets caught in a dispute's crossfire and asks for a fair hearing and an unblock.
• Site policies apply to everyone (although not necessarily according to the interpretations proposed by multiple blocked users who comment at noticeboards).
• The greatest danger inherent to accusations of groupthink and hive mind is that, after enough frivolous claims get thrown around, people tune out the warnings and wind up slipping into the Abilene paradox.
• Everyone who edits Wikipedia is a human being (well, probably) and deserves to be treated as such.

The essence of eguorness[edit]

If Jimbo Wales himself shoveled George Carlin's entire list of seven dirty words into an insult at an editor, the eguor would question the action on Jimbo's talk page. If Jimbo kept it up the eguor would open an RFC on Jimbo.

Favorite quotes[edit]

• Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. - Winston Churchill