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== Meta-discussion ==
Questions about the conduct of RFCs – the process in general – are best taken to a sympathetic forum elsewhere, as if they are placed on the talk or RFC page they may have an unfortunate appearance of wiki-lawyering and prevarication – see above.
==Desired outcomes in user RFCs==
Many editors that start RFC/User pages are understandably very frustrated with behavioral issues. At some level, they really want the outcome to be a vindication for their work and punishment for the other editors.
However, RFC/U discussions are not designed to impose solutions on the unwilling. "The community" may facilitate the discussion, or it may provide views by outside editors, but it will not force a user to change his/her behavior through the RFC/U. The goal is [[WP:DR|dispute resolution through working together]], not outside punishment.
Consequently, the desired outcome needs to be both something that could be agreed to by all of the involved parties, and something that could implemented by the involved parties themselves.
;Some examples of possible outcomes:
* The editor will voluntarily limit his work on [[This article]] to [[WP:1RR]] for the next month.
* The editor will voluntarily limit his assistance at [[This article]] to making suggestions on the talk page.
* The editor will agree to provide high-quality sources whenever s/he adds potentially controversial information to articles on [[This subject]].
* The editor will agree to make an effort to comment on the content, not the contributor.
* The editor will agree to stop using profanity on Wikipedia.
* The editor will agree to remove offensive text from his/her talk page.
* All editors will voluntarily follow the [[WP:BRD|Bold, revert, discuss]] system in [[This article]] to reduce [[WP:EW|edit warring]].
;Some examples of impossible outcomes:
* We get to revert whatever this editor does if we don't like it.
* The editor is forced to apologize against his/her will.
* The editor is forced to re-write [[This article]] to our specifications.
* The editor will be [[WP:BLOCK|blocked]].
* The editor will be [[WP:BAN|permanently topic-banned]].
[[Category:Wikipedia how-to|RFC/How to present a case]]
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