Danny
did nothing wrong. I intend to follow his example.
If I
see people fighting over an article, I'm going to protect it and tell them to
chill out.
AND I
reserve the right to choose which "old version" to revert
to.
AND
FURTHERMORE, if I can figure out a neutral way to fix the article, I see no
ethical reason not to:
* make
ONE edit
*
describe it on the talk page
* and
report what I did to this mailing list
Ed
Poor
Actually, Eric, I disagree.
Trolling is a form of vandalism. This could justly be interpretted as
trolling. (I am reminded of the constant edit wars with Helga, which cost
Wikipedia quite a lot in terms of time and people who were disgusted and
left)
For me to just ask some other "neutral" sysop to do it instead of
me is hardly a neutral step.
I was not involved in an edit war. It was
not an article that I care too deeply about. I was protecting it from what I
(continue to) perceive as trolling.
Given the situation with Lir/.Vera
Cruz/Susan Mason as well as Michael/Weezer and 172, perhaps its time sysops
took more steps to limit trolling and not just the "George Washington had big
balls" kind of vandalism. I open that for discussion.
Danny