&gt;Wikipedia is notorious for entrenched and highly partisan volunteer edit staff.<p>That&#x27;s not really my experience. The main problem is newbies coming in and not understanding MEDRS and other policies.<p>In fact, there should never be an issue with partisan editors because you can always get outside assistance (from admins, or from other editors outside the page in question).<p>Anyway, that is a separate issue to the civility of discussion.