We have some codes, which you seem willing to ignore. Unprotecting a page that you are involved in an edit war in, and then re-editing it to your point, comes to mind. Marking contentious changes as minor also comes to mind. The second is merely bad Wikiquette, the first is a sysop violation, and could result in your having your sysop authority taken away. OliverP, among others, has demanded that I lose my sysop authority for deleting what I, in my innocence, thought was a nonsense article. Where is the reciprocity?

RickK

The Cunctator <cunctator@kband.com> wrote:

On 11/26/03 5:06 PM, "Martin Harper"
wrote:

>> All right, Votes for Deletion is broken.
>
> And has been for some time. Are you volunteering to write the code to fix it?

If by "the code" you mean the "code of behavior", then yes. This is a
situation where the solution is not primarily technological, but social.

Of course, as Lessig discussed, it's a fallacy to believe that the two kinds
of code (legal and machine) are wholly distinct.

Fortunately, most of the necessary tools necessary for solving the bad entry
problem have now been developed: stub indicators, the "restore deleted
edits" option, the deletion log (though that needs to have a more friendly
interface).

Now the problem is primarily behavioral, which can be fixed through "legal"
code.

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