From: geni geniice@gmail.com
Because that person would be thinking like an edit warroir. You ask for outside help. How hard is that?
Easy to ask; often hard to get. People are busy, they don't know anything about the topic, they don't want to get drawn into "edit wars" (particularly if they aren't your buddy or don't know you). Often an RfC will end with zero or one or two people commenting on a Talk: page, and then leaving. Even if they all agree with one editor, they are rarely interested in getting involved in any other way, precisely because they are "good" editors who don't want to edit war. Either you just give up, and leave the soup bone nonsense in (respecting process over content), or you end up edit warring (respecting content over process). Most of the "process" idealists here seem to be repeating the mantra "just follow the process and everything will work out". On the other hand the "content" idealists seem to withdraw from editing after many months of frustration.
Jay.