On 27 Feb 2006 at 09:04, VeryVerily veryverily@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I feel like you're asking me to make a bunch of uncontroversial (frivolous?) edits (what did I say, on bunnies and flowers). Anyone can do that and it proves nothing, so yes it seems you're just telling me off for another length of time.
If there are certain contentious topics that you find you can't edit without it turning into a nasty edit-war (no matter whose fault this is), then perhaps it *would* be a good idea to get away from those topics and do some more-productive and less-contentious edits on different topics. I, for one, rarely even try to edit [[Anarchism]]; it's not worth it, given that anything anybody does there is likely to be wiped out in the next round of the eternal edit war. It's much more useful to find areas of interest that are under-covered and improve them. I haven't tried to edit [[bunnies]] or [[flowers]], however.
If there are certain contentious topics that you find you can't edit without it turning into a nasty edit-war (no matter whose fault this is), then perhaps it *would* be a good idea to get away from those topics and do some more-productive and less-contentious edits on different topics.
Perhaps I haven't emphasized enough that this was the vast majority of my edits.
But even if it were all please refer to my comments as to why the restriction is not acceptable.
I, for one, rarely even try to edit [[Anarchism]]; it's not worth it, given that anything anybody does there is likely to be wiped out in the next round of the eternal edit war.
Perhaps, but I think sometimes it's important to try to get such articles right. Also, if the issue is merely a single problem user, then it's not that hard for a handful of dedicated editors to keep him from ruining the article.
It's much more useful to find areas of interest that are under-covered and improve them. I haven't tried to edit [[bunnies]] or [[flowers]], however.
And were I permitted to, I would, as before, do most of my editing in such areas (well, not literally those two). But again there I can't even be sure I won't be blocked or stalked.
VV