[WikiEN-l] I am very concerned by the arbcomm decision against jguk

[Rick]

--- Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this is a bad way of putting what is a sound
> idea in this
> instance. It is true that Jguk was changing date
> formats to something
> that offended SouthernComfort and others. It is also
> true, however,
> that SouthernComfort had been changing date formats
> to something that
> offended Jguk and others.
> 
> The issue here, though, is that deciding on these
> issues (as with
> whether to use American or English English) comes
> down to the editors
> of a particular article. There appears to be
> widespread agreement on
> the particular articles involved (of which
> SouthernComfort was one of
> the editors) that BCE-CE was preferable in this
> instance. Jguk then
> went around changing them to his preference anyway,
> regardless of the
> article consensus - and that's what isn't on.
> 
> -- ambi

SouthernComfort was NOT one of the editors involved
until after he got into "change every article about
Iran to BCE" mode.  jguk was RIGHTLY changing SC's
edits back to what the original authors had left them
at.

RickK



		
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