Ugh, when do we get to the part where I have to figure out whether a car loaded with apples going north can beat a train loaded with figs going in the same direction?
The basic problem is one of ego. For a place that prides itself on collegiality among editors, and particularly among administrators, we simply step on one another's toes too often. I don't see why we need to have all this parsing and ABC'ing when what we really need is to tug on a few ears and remind each other that it's rarely polite to undermine someone without so much as a word.
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On 4/23/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/23/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
So, clearly a definition of "reverting any administrative action counts as wheel-warring" doesn't work.
It's because it focuses on the "what" - it needs to look at the "why".
Take the example above of A blocking and B unblocking. Why did B unblock? Was it because the block was some sort of mistake (blocking the wrong range, or blocking an AOL proxy for too long, etc) or was it because B disagreed with A's interpretation of the user's edits? If there was such a disagreement, then why did B not discuss the block with A? It's that part which most people find problematic, the attack on someone's judgement, not the actual action of unblocking.
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