[WikiEN-l] Article quality deterioration (was: a valid criticism)

[Tony Sidaway]

On 10/10/05, slimvirgin at gmail.com <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We've got an RfC going at the moment
> about an editor accused of reverting too much, when what he was doing
> was trying to preserve halfway-decent writing, and one of the people
> who has commented here in praise of good writing has criticized this
> editor in the RfC for reverting too much, which strikes me as somewhat
> contradictory.


It isn't at all contradictory. The use of edit warring by an experienced
editor to impose the manual of style in that case has not improved the
articles, and it has alienated numerous relatively new editors. We cannot
make things better by using bad methods.