On 2/28/06, VeryVerily veryverily@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting this. All noted cases follow a pretty obvious theme, e.g., me preventing an attempt to deny the almost inconceivable scale of murder and death created by a communist regime. Again, if this were a Nazi denying the Holocaust I had fought, I'd be being feted as a hero on the mailing list right now, and everyone would look the other way if any "rules" were broken.
I don't think anyone engaged in an edit war is ever feted as a hero. Also, I don't believe anyone is suggesting you are not acting in good faith. It just sounds like your way of going about your business is possibly a little confrontational...
I think I've addressed this point several times. (a) The arbitrators still refuse to specify what *isn't* grounds for a block. (b) I'd be a second-class editor, and everyone I tried to work with would know it. (c) I didn't leave for a year then come back with this appeal so that nothing would change, and there remains no justification for it.
People who don't revert others' changes without discussing them on the talk pages are second-class editors? I wish we could banish first class.
Actually, though I did much copyediting in my day, I honestly don't care that much. It's misinformation that bothers me much more. Indeed, misspellings have an upside, as they remind the casual reader that those articles are amateurish and not credible, so when they read on Wikipedia that Pol Pot was a kindly old man cruelly smeared by the corporate media, they won't take it too seriously.
At the end of the day, anyone with a particular agenda they're trying to push (whether valid or not), has to tread carefully. If there are people bent on denying that particular agenda, then doubly so. Being right isn't all that matters, after all. What else needs to be said?
Steve