--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)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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