Wikipedia:Imagine others complexly

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In a speech written for the ALAN Conference, the American author John Green expanded on the importance of seeing others as complex individuals. Civility issues, misunderstandings, and discomfort on Wikipedia can sometimes arise from a failure to imagine others complexly. Imagining others complexly is not quite the same as assuming good faith in other editors, and includes other considerations like the tone we use to talk about living persons and accepting we cannot presume to know other editors very well, because there is only so much that can be known based on editing behavior and user pages alone.


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