On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:41 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
You would need some examples to credibly
demonstrate this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Good_and_evil&diff=379134639&…
An example of a restore, from 2008. 'Perfection by reduction' experts
trimmed it down to virtually nothing. Note that that second paragraph
could use some trimming, but the essence of its definition was removed
entirely.
Rolling the stone back up the mountains is what I might term this...
i.e. the practice of mining old page versions for a version to revert
back to. It seems slightly wrong somehow, and it would be WP:LAME for
people to edit war over different "old" versions: "this version is
best", "no, THIS version is best", "you are both wrong, clearly the
FIRST EDIT was the best"... That would be a new phenomenon of "page
history edit warring" that becomes more likely as the age of Wikipedia
increases and the page versions for any one page increases as well.
Carcharoth