[WikiEN-l] Reversion warriors

[Fred Bauder]

> From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:35:20 -0500
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Reversion warriors
> 
> Mirko,
> 
> I am frustrated, too. I don't see any easy solution to the "constant
> state of edit war". Worse, I suspect that the problem of Wikipedia is a
> microcosm of the problem of the entire world.
> 
> For there to be stability, there must either be a force which prevents
> contending elements from clashing -- or those elements must come to a
> mutually satisfying agreement.
> 
> As Viajero said or hinted (or probably both!), I have often been a
> "force" which settled disputes via some sort of authority. But this does
> not satisfy anyone: not me, and not Viajero, and not the contributors
> who wait a day, a week, or a month and just start tearing apart the
> battlefield (oops, I mean article!) again.
> 
> I find to my shock that my "solutions" are often do not provide enduring
> satisfaction. I'm more like a Soviet premier using military and
> political power to suppress ethnic strife than a genuine peacemaker.
> 
> This troubles me. This disturbs me. This is the number one factor that
> drives me to want to leave Wikipedia forever.
> 
> Ed Poor

If people (with a number of contradictory viewpoints) will torture and kill
to get a viewpoint across, why is a surprise that they would revert a
Wikipedia article?

Fred

Fred