[WikiEN-l] Time for a rant

[K P]

On 8/12/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hughes_H-4_Hercules&diff=150139556&oldid=150131269
>
> 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?"
>
> 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.
>
> Steve
>
Some of the aircraft editors are very possessive about their crappy
articles.  The small craft articles contain many that are essentially
pamphlets for the airplane, and attempts to convert them to prose are
not appreciated.  When I read your post, I assumed you made
improvements to the prose, and knew they would not be appreciated.

KP