On 8/12/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hughes_H-4_Hercules&diff=1501…
This is the kind of stuff that gets me down. I see some really crappy
prose. I attempt to copyedit it, distilling four separate references
to the plane's nickname ("spruce goose") down to one. Another user
reverts my edit with "Revert- non productive edit- that was an
improvement?"
Reverting is such an unpleasant thing to do to anyone, surely the
balance should be towards "don't revert unless the edit is really
bad", rather than "revert unless the edit is really good". Grr.
Steve
Some of the aircraft editors are very possessive about their crappy
articles. The small craft articles contain many that are essentially
pamphlets for the airplane, and attempts to convert them to prose are
not appreciated. When I read your post, I assumed you made
improvements to the prose, and knew they would not be appreciated.
KP