On 22/06/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 6/22/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The main reasoning behind BOLD is the fact that
it's easy to undo any
mistakes. That holds for (most) administrative actions as well as
basic editing, so why wouldn't BOLD apply?
But the problem is that it isn't that easy. 3RR gives whoever makes
the first change an advantage: their opponent will get hit by the rule
first. Being BOLD in policy is a major cause of The Wrong Version,
because it's likely that disputes will get the text locked in the
changed version.
Perhaps admins should be encouraged to revert the article to whatever
state it was in before the edit war started before protecting it. That
would give the article a clean start and let the changes be made more
constructively.
There is much to be said for that approach as an initial finding.
Nevertheless those who are resistant to change are as much a part of the
problem as those making the changes. Remember too that the purpose of
3RR is to calm down the debate not to settle it. We want the
combattants to settle their differences on the talk page. If the person
supporting the existing refuses to even discuss the changes on the talk
page no matter what reasons are given to make the change then perhaps
the new version should be the one supported.
Ec