[WikiEN-l] Wheel warring

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Apr 23 18:28:50 UTC 2006


Steve Bennett wrote:

>On 23/04/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Take the example above of A blocking and B unblocking. Why did B
>>unblock? Was it because the block was some sort of mistake (blocking
>>the wrong range, or blocking an AOL proxy for too long, etc) or was it
>>because B disagreed with A's interpretation of the user's edits? If
>>there was such a disagreement, then why did B not discuss the block
>>with A? It's that part which most people find problematic, the attack
>>on someone's judgement, not the actual action of unblocking.
>>    
>>
>Funnily enough, my definition works here as well. Someone whose
>judgment is being questioned will accuse their reverter of wheel
>warring. Someone who made a mistake won't.
>
>In other words: If the person you reverted accuses you of wheel
>warring, then you wheel warred.
>
So someone whose poor judgement has been questioned is perfectly 
justified to impute bad faith!  Seems that you're arguing that his two 
wrongs would make things right.

Ec




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