i'm a morbidly obese individual so i know about personal attacks it's frustrating to be shunned for no other reason than suffering from that particular disease if a wide diversity of people and by 'diversity' i mean diversity of viewpoint are going to be included rather than excluded in the overall effort of improving wikipedia there's going to have to be a concomitant latitude extended not a mechanisitic adherence to what one individual thinks the rule means in this instance if one abides by the standard of the quality of another opinion forwarded the edit was an improvement and not because i think it was