[WikiEN-l] Time for a rant

[Wily D]

On 8/13/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/07, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It depends on the circumstances (there have been times when I've
> certainly
> > very knowingly engaged in BRD, and
> > > was well aware that the R was going to happen as part of the road to
> D).
>
> I still can't work out what B, R and D are. Enlighten me please? :)


Bold - Revert - Discuss.  It's an editing model that acknowledges that the
flipside of Be Bold! and Ignore all rules! is that people are free to remove
whatever you do, and that in disagreements, you need to talk it out.  It
works well when you get to D (which admittedly is sometimes an ugly
process).


> But to sympathize with the main point, blanket "I don't like this" reverts
> > of good faith plausible edits, are usually far less helpful than
> discussion,
> > or revert + discussion.
>
> Though to play devil's advocate, I had a long ongoing problem with one
> editor who basically took it upon himself to rewrite entire articles,
> paragraph by paragraph, over weeks and months. He was convinced there
> was a sneaky, subtle POV there that had to be exorcised. The trouble
> was, his edits (and his writing style in general) were very difficult
> to understand and often had grammar problems. It was so tempting to
> revert them sometimes, but I usually ended up having to copy edit them
> all instead - a process he was fine with. He was more than happy to
> argue and explain his reasoning ad infinitum but it just never made
> much sense. And it was just so much work to actually try and
> understand the ridiculously subtle points he was making, and also to
> re-copyedit these paragraphs he was systematically ripping up and
> rearranging. Grr.
>
> Steve
>
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