G'day David Gerard,
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.
The solution there is for editors to get the hint and be more patient
in editing. The article doesn't have to be perfect in the next hour.
Indeed. If edit warriors are blocked for edit warring (four reverts,
five reverts, two reverts ...) and the page is locked in The Wrong
Version for 24 hours, *it doesn't matter*. Bloody well *get over
yourselves* and *have a nice sleep* and maybe *feed the birds at the
park down the road* or *read a good book* or *post something with lots
of bold emphasis*, but for 24 hours at least *stop bloody fretting about
the article*.
*That* is the spirit of 3RR, and indeed of The Wrong Version.
--
Mark Gallagher
"'Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten
in the leg by a personal friend."
- P G Wodehouse, /Carry On, Jeeves/