On 9/9/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/9/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
If y'all are more interested in making ad-hominem attacks against Mm555 than in discussing the pros and cons of placing Carson City on the list, perhaps y'all should just edit war all day - get it out of your system, talk later.
This thread is not about the "pros and cons of placing Carson City on the list", that discussion belongs on the article's talk page. It's about the behavior of the participants in an edit war. With everybody discussion the behavior of the experienced editors, who perhaps did overreact, I thought it important to show that there's plenty of blame to go around and the experienced editors weren't reacting to a "simple newbie mistake".
No, the experienced editors weren't reacting to a simple newbie mistake, they were reacting to a slightly complex newbie mistake (although not really an uncommon nor unexpected one). This mitigates their error, but they were still in error, and an apology is still warranted.