I have a lot (way too many) of other irons in the fire so I doubt I'll make
much personal imput but both articles (and any others in the same vein)
remain subject to the normal editing process.
Deleting large blocks of someone elses edits or engaging in automatic
reverts will remain problematic.
That day (when I started all this) and made the two provocative edits to
[[China]] (making a link to [[autoritarianism and totalitarianism]] in the
first paragraph) and the other to [[United States]] (I guess the Watchers'
Council is not so well organized on that front) I guess I was acting rather
confrontive and reckless. "Tragedies happen when you are bored"
Fred
From: cprompt <cprompt(a)tmbg.org>
Reply-To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 02:54:46 -0400
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Fred's work given its own article
Hmm...what should be done about your controversial edits, then?
james duffy wrote:
I have moved Fred's controversial edits to a separate page from
[[Communist state]]. Given that they amount to a critique of communist
government and governance (not the theoretical discussion of a system
where party and government are blurred together) I have provisionally
called it [[Communist government]] (well my suggestion was slightly
different but Taku turned it into that) though someone may be able to
come up with a better title. It is now linked to the Communist state
page, allowing the Cs page to be what it was designed to be and what
its opening paragraph says it is about, a definition of a particular
constitutional system, not a discussion on communISM.
Fred can work on his linked page there to try to NPOV it and give it
some degree of balance (and to avoid sweeping generalisations in
preference to solid analysis), while its analysis is linked to the
[[Communist state]] page (along with other links like [[Forms of
government]], [[China]] etc. Having spent so much time reverting
[[China]] originally to remove the term [[Communist state]], then when
that failed gone to [[Communist state]] and tried to POV it and add in
stuff that was not linked to a definition (the page was specially
created in the first place to explain to him what the term meant!)
maybe now he can pull together a proper encyclopædic article without
constantly reverting everyone else's work and completely changing the
meanings of what they had written in mysterious 'minor' edits. A
properly written encyclopædic article can augment the article on the
political science definition, with each linked to the other. But the
[[Communist government]] article needs a hell of a lot of work to
reach that standard. Hopefully it will get that and reach that standard.
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