On 15/08/06, stevertigo vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
-- Peter Ansell ansell.peter@gmail.com wrote:
Assuming good faith does not go so far as to say that we assume perfection of edits. As long as the person is civil and not abusive of the editor who put in the unverified statement it should fit within all the policies.
And so... do you agree that a modus operandi of blanket tag-team reverts while making obtuse references to various policies is... incivil?
-Stevertigo
If what you are refering to is bullying of users than I definitely do not agree to it happening.
However, this situation has to be contrasted against the fact that Wikipedia should only contain what someone can verify using outside sources. Making Wikipedia into anything else is not what it was designed to be, and from the viewpoint of the reverters they are simply keeping Wikipedia in a verifiable (or at least noting where verification is needed) state.
Using obtuse references to policies is not what I would say referring to the Verifiability policy is. I would say that a direct reference to a core policy, which when stated objectively does not go against the civility policy.
Peter Ansell