Hi all,
Second new topic today! Wow...
Anyway, so I've stumbled into a POV war. Basically a topic that has
apparently recently attracted a small number of very determined
individuals with different points of view on the liquidation of a
student organisation. At least one of the editing parties was a major
player in the actual events, and possibly others. A general lack of
knowledge, or respect for, Wikipedia conventions and editing policies
is present.
I'd really like to get a neutral, heavily sourced, informative article
out of all this. However, there is a lot of destabilising reverts,
deletions, additions of unsourced material, personal attacks etc going
on.
Does anyone have any advice to offer? How do you tell people that they
can't suddenly wade into a Wikipedia article and use it to rewrite
history? How do you tell people that removing a merge-to tag isn't a
question of rights, it's a question of good faith? What do you do when
someone removes carefully added material, without descending into an
edit war?
Basically, where do I go to send these people to Wikipedia 101?
(I'm deliberately not mentioning the name of the article, but if
anyone's that curious, you'll find it quickly).
Steve