[WikiEN-l] Banning for bad edits

Sunir Shah sunir at sunir.org
Sun Feb 8 19:09:21 UTC 2004


In response to my suggestion,
>>A cheaper solution would have been to wait a while,
>>say a day or two, and then delete the problematic
>>text after the user had forgotten about the page.

Rick writes,
> <sarcasm> Sure.  People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make 
> sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. </sarcasm>

In this case, that wasn't happening. Reality is always the
winner.

One might also first ask why a person feels compelled to 
babysit their own text on a collaborative work.

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