On 2/23/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
If nobody answers his comments on the talk page, he has made his case.
Here's how I would handle it.
If my bolds on an article are reverted by regular editors, especially more then one, I would assume by the reverts themselves that there is no consensus for my bolds. I might make a polite query on the talk page but my next move would be to "go play elsewhere".
You see it's not important to me that one particular edit in one particular page sticks. I don't even watch the pages I edit. If the edit sticks, fine. If it gets reverted, then hey that's life. Let someone else go to war there. There's thousands of other articles to read and edit. (most of my edits have so far been minor ones anyway)
I think every editor, especially newbies, need to ask themselves this question. "Am are here to help the project and make enwikipedia a better encyclopedia or am I here to get my point across in [[Article]]?"
Here's another quote from the "don't be a dick" essay I posted earlier...
"Honestly examine your motivations. Are you here to contribute and make the project good? Or is your goal really to find fault, get your views across, or be the one in control? Perhaps secretly inside you even enjoy the thrill of a little confrontation. This may not make you a bad person, but to everyone who is busily trying to build something great, you become an impediment"