Other people are going to reorganize "your" article from time to time or at
least try to. This can be done in good faith, or perhaps in bad faith,
'let's get rid of this "crap"'. Bryan Derken's effort appears to
have been
in good faith. I think the better approach would have been to let him try it
out, then evaluate it and if it is not hopeless, correct whatever problems
come up. Saying No upfront is a power play in a situation where, despite
being the major author, you actually have no power. Thus, to prevail, you
have to be pretty aggressive.
Fred
From: "Abe Sokolov"
<abesokolov(a)hotmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:43:43 +0000
To: wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org
Subject: Summary style (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Response to Bryan Derken)
I did not get a good first impression of your editing style based on my
experiences in that specific encounter either. You were utterly unengaged
with the narrative and the historical aspects of the article. You only
seemed concerned about shuffling around text, titles, series boxes, pages,
and the like. But did you stop to figure other whether you knew what you
were doing?