That policy has to do with bringing new editors into a dispute among editors to shout down the other side, or to influence a vote or consensus-seeking process. It doesn’t disparage inviting new editors to join a WikiProject or similar constructive effort, even if the topic of that effort may be controversial somewhere.
I mean, I guess the real question is what do you do if some opponent of animal rights disagrees with all your changes and reverts them. Then you have a dispute among editors, so the policy I quoted is relevant. Maybe you don’t think this scenario is very likely but I think it is at least somewhat plausible,
That policy has to do with bringing new editors into a dispute among editors to shout down the other side, or to influence a vote or consensus-seeking process. It doesn’t disparage inviting new editors to join a WikiProject or similar constructive effort, even if the topic of that effort may be controversial somewhere.
I mean, I guess the real question is what do you do if some opponent of animal rights disagrees with all your changes and reverts them. Then you have a dispute among editors, so the policy I quoted is relevant. Maybe you don’t think this scenario is very likely but I think it is at least somewhat plausible,