Tom Haws wrote:
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
Tell that to the guy who reverted me, hollering "consensus!" from the back of his mule, then having me jailed for arguing the point, then including everything I added (but retaining a bit of stuff that is soon to be gone anyway).
Blair, I will say it directly. You are in the wrong in this case. Please note the following steps:
I am not.
- Find a page that you think needs "improvement".
I did.
- Ignore the talk page and *boldly* fix the page.
I fixed the page according to what I saw on the talk page.
- When you are reverted, bite your tongue, go to the talk page and
say, "Huh?".
You presume the person doing the reversion was right not to say "Huh?" to me.
- Spend the next 4 months discussing your POV and building consensus
toward a better solution.
Would have loved to do that, but it wasn't being offered to me in kind. Others were accepting of the edits I made but only too willing to pretend that I was breaking the rules.
You failed the above at step 3.
Again, you are wrong.
I recommend you come to an admin with hat in hand, promise not to revert again, and go to work building a new, better consensus. That's the way it works.
I did nothing wrong and I will not kowtow to blind authority; I will work to make authority responsible. That's the way it works.
--Blair