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On 10/8/05, actionforum@comcast.net wrote:
Those, who voluntarily limit themselves to one or two reverts per day, must refrain from editing certain pages, or return to those pages with persistance over a long period of time.
That is simply untrue. I've edited George W. Bush, for instance, with my customary 1RR. The Iraq war article, too. I've performed useful edits on those articles, leaving both better than when I found them. Why would this *not* be true?
I've done that too, however, it does depend on what you are trying to get in. I'd be more impressed if you could get fair representation for anarcho-capitalism on the anarchism page, or if you could get Castro properly labeled as a dictator. Or how about getting what everybody expects to be called communism, the communist state, and criticisms of it on the communism page.
Do you ever try the hard stuff on a page with a clique suppressing other POVs? -- Silverback
On 10/9/05, actionforum@comcast.net <actionforum@comcast.net > wrote:
I'd be more impressed if you could
get fair representation for anarcho-capitalism on the anarchism page,
Currently seems to have a pretty fair three-paragraph summary, and a link to a full article on the subject.
or if you could get Castro properly labeled as a dictator.
The correct description is apparently "Presidente del Consejo de Estado" or just "Presidente", or alternatively "Comandante en Jefe". Nobody seems to be able to get those titles into the article. Instead we have squabbling over whether to call him a "ruler" or a "dictator". Edit warring does not help this, it makes it worse.
Now the late Shah of Iran has similar problems. Somebody keeps trying to run off with "His Imperial Majesty " and "Aryamehr".
Or how about getting what everybody expects to be called
communism, the communist state, and criticisms of it on the communism page.
I'd expect a description of an ideology, and some general history, under an -ism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
For communist states we have an article with the completely unsurprising title "Communist state".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state
For the Communist International, there's an article called "Comintern".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comintern
Do you ever try the hard stuff on a page with a clique suppressing
other POVs?
There is a dispute resolution process for the serious stuff, you know.