[WikiEN-l] Destructionism

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:41 AM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> You would need some examples to credibly demonstrate this.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Good_and_evil&diff=379134639&oldid=378943442
>
> An example of a restore, from 2008. 'Perfection by reduction' experts
> trimmed it down to virtually nothing. Note that that second paragraph
> could use some trimming, but the essence of its definition was removed
> entirely.

Rolling the stone back up the mountains is what I might term this...
i.e. the practice of mining old page versions for a version to revert
back to. It seems slightly wrong somehow, and it would be WP:LAME for
people to edit war over different "old" versions: "this version is
best", "no, THIS version is best", "you are both wrong, clearly the
FIRST EDIT was the best"... That would be a new phenomenon of "page
history edit warring" that becomes more likely as the age of Wikipedia
increases and the page versions for any one page increases as well.

Carcharoth