On 10/10/05, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
We've got an RfC going at the moment about an editor accused of reverting too much, when what he was doing was trying to preserve halfway-decent writing, and one of the people who has commented here in praise of good writing has criticized this editor in the RfC for reverting too much, which strikes me as somewhat contradictory.
It isn't at all contradictory. The use of edit warring by an experienced editor to impose the manual of style in that case has not improved the articles, and it has alienated numerous relatively new editors. We cannot make things better by using bad methods.