[WikiEN-l] User Kwantus

[Steve Vertigum]

> Geez, it's turned into "Attack Rick" night.

I dont want to make you feel singled out Rick - youre
a fine editor and not too unreasonable. -- Your just
maybe a little thin-skinned when it comes to dealing
with some of the perennial problems here  -- primarily
newbieism and how to deal with it. 

I took issue last night for your "revert war" with
Zero0000 on Hezbollah for a couple reasons -- first --
you were reverting the work of a bona fide user
without so much as a comment beyond "rv" -- this
doesnt work here.  This is fine for dealing with an
anon who vandalizes pages with "bush is a whacker"  or
whatever.  Second you were doing so for apparently
subjecive reasons -- based on your judgement of the
quality of their work . In such cases, leave a
comment, take a neutral position, and generate a
dialogue. (there was only one comment by Zero and it
was entirely with merit and thoughtfulness.  Your
conduct, simply by trying to quietly sweep someone
(too polite in fact to argue with you) under the rug
is reprehensible, if not a cause for some sanction.
(Why are sanctions not in degrees, anyway)

Im not sure, but I think you *may, (like a great many
productive wikipedian) have contracted  the academic
standards kick disease
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_standards_kick
or perhaps a variant. Either way, a central diagnosis
of that disease is to treat newbies and people who are
not vandals as vandals.  Read article for cures.

-S-







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