On 8/12/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hughes_H-4_Hercules&diff=15013...
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