G'day David Gerard,
On 22/06/07, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/22/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@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.