Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 8/24/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Because of this, it is sound policy to warn on the first incident rather than block.
Unless there is an evident pattern in the editor's behaviour, the only way to resolve the problem is to fix the error, and go on with life. Warning a person for making an obvious typo, and blocking him if he makes a second typo strikes me as an extremist attitude.
I hope I'm misunderstanding you. If someone is editing a paragraph and changes the year 105 to [[1050]] you think it would be inapproiate to warn them to execute more care?
You aren't misunderstanding me at all. That change may or may not be valid. Wikifying the date is a perfectly normal edit. Maybe 1050 was the correct year; maybe adding that "0" was a simple slip of the finger; I can't know outside of the context. I would assume good faith, fix the error, and carry on with something else. If he persists in the error after that I might want to initiate a friendly dialogue.
I have been around here long enough to have made my own share of typos, some of which I find exceedingly stupid when they are pointed out. That happens to the best of editors. Unless you can convince me that all your edits are perfect, it would be better that you not expect perfection from others. When you berate newbies with such trivialities you do a good job of showing that this is NOT a welcoming community.
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