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This page in a nutshell: Calling a spade a spade can get you blocked.
"What do you expect of me? I've always been one to call a spade a spade."

"Fine," said Yevgenia. "But don't imagine that's always a virtue."

—Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

Misplaced Pages policies, such as our policy against personal attacks and our policy against incivility, prohibit characterizing an editor as unconstructive regardless of whether the characterization is accurate. The consensus of the community is that such actions are inherently uncivil.

Although editors who consistently engage in disruptive editing are disruptive editors, and editors who consistently vandalize are vandals, there is still a requirement for editors to be civil to each other. Name-calling and labeling editors is not the appropriate way to handle such situations. If the behavior is problematic, use the dispute resolution process.

It's not a "manual geomorphological modification implement", it's just a spade.

Accusations should not be made whether with or without cause, and being blunt is discouraged. Even in cases where you are correct about another user, accusations of POV pushing, tendentious editing, bad editing, and the like, while factually true, may be sufficient grounds for remedial action. Some people will take a detached statement evaluating their work negatively as a personal insult no matter what. Unfailing courtesy, even if insincere, will better help meet your goals.

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