[WikiEN-l] Jesus edit ninjas (no subject)

[Phil Nash]

Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, David Goodman
>> <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Even people with similar general understanding and the utmost good
>>> will can have difficulty in trying to condense complex  ides into a
>>> creed, or a lede paragraph.
>>>
>>> In the Real World, the question of whether and in what sense Jesus
>>> is an incarnation of God has been debted for over 19 centuries now,
>>> and many of the nastier of the debates have involved single
>>> words--in one case,  a single letter.  As this is what  the
>>> intellectual and spiritual leaders of mankind have done, there is
>>> no reason to expect anything other than that here, unless we are
>>> all too ignorant to know about the controversies or totally
>>> indifferent to the issues. The main advantage we have over the RW
>>> is that it is not possible to spill real blood over the internet.
>>
>> My point is that in the context of wikipedia, what the lede should
>> say, the issue has been hammered out by megabytes of discussion and
>> revision. It's not like you can walk in there and say "hey guys, you
>> know, the article should really say so-and-so, so I'm just gonna fix
>> it for ya!". There is a reason the articles says what it says. As I
>> said, there's surely been battles about where to put every comma, and
>> the version that is there now represents some form of consensus about
>> how the article should start.
>>
>> You can't go in and change that, and not expect to be reverted.
>>
>> --Oskar

Indeed. We have [[WP:BRD]] for that, and I don't see much evidence of D in 
this case.