[WikiEN-l] Banning for bad edits

[Rick]

Although I, personally rarely use my Watchlist (I tend to use it only to go back to pages whose names I forget all the time), there are many people who have made mention here on the mailing list, that they found it virtually impossible to work with Wikipedia without their Watchlists.  Perhaps they can shed some light on the why?
 
RickK

Sunir Shah <sunir at sunir.org> wrote:
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,
> Sure. People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make 
> sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. 

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.

SS
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