[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 86, Issue 2

[Until It Sleeps]

  Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:25:28 +0100
> From: Ian Woollard<ian.woollard at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New tool: Write before you revert
> To: English Wikipedia<wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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> On 01/09/2010, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The concept is that reverts by people who don't participate in
>> discussion are typically misinformed or adversarial at best. If you
>> don't participate in discussion, there's no need for your help on the
>> article.
> Even if that's typical, inevitably it's sometimes going to be done by
> someone who knows exactly what they're doing, and the original editor
> may have genuinely missed something obvious.
>
> Expecting them to jump through arbitrary hoops doesn't seem very wiki-friendly.
>
>> -SC
> Agreed, an idea like that is absurd at best. You shouldn't be forced to participate in a discussion to revert a vandal who decided to fill the article with obscenities or put an unsourced defamatory statement such as "[Insert BLP subject here] is a shithead who should be killed."

-The Thing That Should Not Be