I guess my "win" condition excludes double-talk... I find your answer without substantive content, essentially a Rodney King statement, "Why can't we all get along?" Wholesome and true, but not relevant to the questions Daniel raises.
Fred
From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:08:45 -0500 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Policy on Reversions?
I think Daniel (maveric) is not really proposing a change in policy, so much as he is making a call for a more congenial and cooperative attitude.
Repeatedly reverting others' edits is a pointless waste of time and will never resolve controversies about facts or points of view (POV). We ought to make a distinction, as I think mav has done, between (1) taking a firm stand against simple vandalism like "you are a poopoo head" and (2) stubbornly insisting on "rightness" in a POV dispute.
Resolution of a dispute requires a mutually agreeable outcome, a "win-win" condition. Otherwise, it's not stable. We ought to work toward stability by clarifying each person's win conditions.
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