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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:57:04 -0000 (GMT), Tony Sidaway
wrote:
It's the "We need *this* edit war for
the good of Wikipedia" syndrome.
It's related to [[Wikipedia:The Wrong Version]].
Indeed. There is so much to be achieved through dialectic and
consensus, and nothing at all to be achieved through violence. And
though it may debase the meaning of violence to apply it digitally, a
revert was _is_ analogous a physical controntation when words have
failed. Let us import knowledge from the real world, not stupidity.
:-)
That is both debasing to the meaning of violence, and taking the revert all too
personally. Really, it may be no more than a statement, that the edit wasn't obvious,
and needs to be justified if you are serious about it. You also forget that the edit
being reverted may be a change or deletion, and so the "edit" may have been
every bit as "violent" as a revert.
-- Silverback