Hi, Andreas,
On 6/22/11, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Charlotte, I managed to find the dispute and had a look at it. The editor concerned definitely was being a bit of a prat in my view, and should have discussed the matter with you before going on a reverting spree. I would not have inserted the "sic" in that one quote, but otherwise you were quite correct, and they were wrong, and moreover dealt with it poorly. Hope that helps. I think what we see here once more is the off-putting effect of templating good-faith contributors. Andreas
I'm impressed with your skills as a detective (!) and, yes, in retrospect inserting [sic] in that quote was counter-productive, although I'd done that due to long-time editorial habit.
Yes, too, his use of the Huggle template had alarmed me unnecessarily because after I'd clicked through the link and discovered it was a vandalism tool, and also discovered that he'd applied it to a dozen of my edits in a matter of minutes, I got the impression I was unjustly racking up demerits without being given an opportunity to explain that I was anything but a vandal.....but you've seen all that, so no need to go over it again.
I appreciate the encouraging assessment, but my experiences with the other editors on the two article talk pages that I described to Sue were in some ways even more off-putting because in their cases it was so impersonal ("We SCORN your miserable little crumb, even if it's correct!").
I then made the mistake of clicking through a notice of a pending Article for Deletion discussion (first time ever) of an article whose subject is within my field of expertise: it was like reading through a dark parody of deliberative debate. I posted to that one and nothing bad happened to me (I was completely ignored, I think, except in the totaling of votes), then followed a second one initiated by the same nominator concerning another article in the same field and although nothing bad was said to me there either, I was utterly aghast at the kinds of things that other editors were saying to and about each other, which was the point at which I finally decided to stop editing.
Thank you, as well, for the kind welcome.
Best,
Charlotte