[WikiEN-l] Time for a rant

[John Lee]

On 8/13/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hughes_H-4_Hercules&diff=150139556&oldid=150131269
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> This is the kind of stuff that gets me down. I see some really crappy
> prose. I attempt to copyedit it, distilling four separate references
> to the plane's nickname ("spruce goose") down to one. Another user
> reverts my edit with "Revert- non productive edit- that was an
> improvement?"
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> Reverting is such an unpleasant thing to do to anyone, surely the
> balance should be towards "don't revert unless the edit is really
> bad", rather than "revert unless the edit is really good". Grr.


I recall Jimbo once said a long long time ago that a revert is akin to a
slap in the face. I've grown used to people not understanding this when they
revert someone else.

Johnleemk