[WikiEN-l] Re: 3RR policy change

[Fred Bauder]

That is nasty. And can produce a lot of needless work. You have to look at
the changes they made and save them if they have not made it too
complicated, but definitely they are leading you into a trap. If you revert
they have this complaint that you removed useful edits. I guess you have to
balance the situation. If they have created reams of work by combining a
revert with an edit it is their responsibility not yours to do all the extra
work involved. This kind of behavior leads to two versions of the articles.

It's hard for someone not closely following the action to catch this sort of
thing.

Fred

> From: "JAY JG" <jayjg at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 09:40:32 -0500
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: 3RR policy change
> 
> 
> 
>> From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net>
>> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: 3RR policy change
>> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:58:16 -0700
> 
>> 
>> Never hurts to correct a typo while reverting, but its still a revert.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>>> From: "JAY JG" <jayjg at hotmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 07:26:32 -0500
>>> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
>>> Subject: RE: [WikiEN-l] Re: 3RR policy change
>>> 
>>> My question is, what about editors who revert while simultaneously (and
>>> deliberately) making non-trivial changes, so they can claim their edits
>> were
>>> not a delete at all?
>>> 
>>> Jay.
> 
> The issue that I'm talking about is when an editor does a significant
> re-work of part of an article (say, re-wording or adding a number of
> sentences) while simultaneously reverting other parts of the article, in
> order to do a revert while being able to claim that they are doing
> substantive edits.
> 
> Jay.
> 
> 
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