[WikiEN-l] how to keep me from edit warring as much

[Jimmy Wales]

Why don't you just take notes for yourself on a subpage of your
user: namespace?

A [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:

> One really good way to keep me from so much reverting
> (note, my reverts are always reverts of reverts -- I
> don't delete other people's test (I NPOV it instead);
> however, when people delete my text I do tend to
> revert their revert)
> 
> But, a good way to slow my reverting down, is to give
> me a second watchlist. 
> 
> I use one watchlist so I can keep an idea of whats
> going on with articles I have edited (so that I can
> revert people who revert me); if I had a second
> watchlist, then I could deliberately watch articles at
> which someone was reverting me -- this would allow me
> to not have to worry about forgetting that so-and-so
> deleted my text. 
> 
> If I didn't have to worry about the deleting being
> forgotten, then I might be more willing to wait a day
> or two and see if the reverter gets around to
> explaining themselves. 
> 
> I also think it should become a rule that whenever
> someone deletes a chunk of text, that they include
> some sort of notification in the edit summary. 
> 
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