Viajero wrote:
Adam Carr demonstrated on articles like
[[Anti-zionism]] that it
seems to make a huge difference if ONE individual
takes charge of
the article with no particular authority except
the confidence of
other contributors. Adam is by no means impartial
(who is?) but he
has a gift for synthesizing various POVs into an
effective, well-
written organic whole.
Ed replied:
I think this will work for any topic, provided an individual can be found who can win the confidence of the other contributors.
I reply: This is quite correct, but it is also temporary. As soon as the respected moderating person goes away, the fighting will flare up and by the end of the first good edit war the results of all that hard work will have been swept away. I suggest that my proposed change would make this (slightly) less likely to happen.
Zero
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