Jonathan, we'd all be happier -- including you! -- if you would restrain yourself from engaging in edit wars.
I challenge you to adopt Uncle Ed's policy: * if someone reverts my change twice in a row, it's time to leave that article alone for a while.
I can hardly think of an occasion when this self-imposed policy failed to reach a mutually acceptable balance. (details available on request :-)
Moreover, it's due in large measure to my dedication to peace that on frequent occasions all parties to a dispute have agreed to let me referee the dispute.
I've made thousands of edits; you've only made a few hundred. Now I may not have absolutely *mastered* the art of making an inoffensive edit. Yet, I daresay I nearly always manage to get information into articles without anyone wanting to revert.
This is because of 2 things: * Jimbo's NPOV policy is a G-E-N-I-U-S idea!!!! * I am willing to conform my writing to the NPOV
Learn from the master, eh?
Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
Ed Poor wrote in part:
I challenge you to adopt Uncle Ed's policy:
- if someone reverts my change twice in a row, it's time to leave that
article alone for a while.
I can hardly think of an occasion when this self-imposed policy failed to reach a mutually acceptable balance. (details available on request :-)
I think that the whole Wikipedia would do well with expounded details of your success with this. We all have a strong inclination *not* to let the @$$holes and trolls (as it were) get away with anything for even a few hours; to know that it consistently comes out OK in the end could be a big help.
-- Toby
--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
Ed Poor wrote in part:
I challenge you to adopt Uncle Ed's policy:
- if someone reverts my change twice in a row, it's time to leave
that article alone for a while.
I can hardly think of an occasion when this self-imposed policy failed to reach a mutually acceptable balance. (details available on request :-)
I think that the whole Wikipedia would do well with expounded details of your success with this. We all have a strong inclination *not* to let the @$$holes and trolls (as it were) get away with anything for even a few hours; to know that it consistently comes out OK in the end could be a big help.
I have adopted a similar policy to Ed's and I think it works very well. When you feel an edit war coming and the blood is starting to boil: go away, fix a couple of spelling mistakes, and drag a link to the article onto your desktop so that you won't forget. Then a week later, when the blood isn't boiling anymore and the idiot opponent has long left, read the article again, check the Talk page, and make your fixes. Sometimes you will even realize that the idiot opponent wasn't that idiotic after all.
Axel
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