Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:25:28 +0100
From: Ian Woollard<ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New tool: Write before you revert
To: English Wikipedia<wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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On 01/09/2010, stevertigo<stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The concept is that reverts by people who
don't participate in
discussion are typically misinformed or adversarial at best. If you
don't participate in discussion, there's no need for your help on the
article.
Even if that's typical, inevitably it's sometimes going to be
done by
someone who knows exactly what they're doing, and the original editor
may have genuinely missed something obvious.
Expecting them to jump through arbitrary hoops doesn't seem very wiki-friendly.
-SC
Agreed, an idea like that is absurd at
best. You shouldn't be forced to participate in a discussion to revert a vandal who
decided to fill the article with obscenities or put an unsourced defamatory statement such
as "[Insert BLP subject here] is a shithead who should be killed."