On 10/10/05, slimvirgin(a)gmail.com <slimvirgin(a)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.