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From: "MZMcBride" z@mzmcbride.com
Much of the content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia wikis comes from non-vested contributors. That is, many, many helpful additions and corrections come from people who will make only a few edits in their lifetime. While I can't disagree with the suggestion that reverting is easier than fact-checking, I very much doubt that assuming bad faith helps build a better project or a better community. And this is to say nothing of the fact that the seemingly simple act of providing a reference is often painful and unintuitive, particularly in established articles that employ complicated markup (infoboxes, citation templates, and ref tags).
My first 2 edits at TV Tropes had this property: not only were they reverted, they were both reverted with snotty comments about procedure, and *the second one was me doing what the first one had yelled at me for not doing*. And I got yelled at the second time for following instructions.
I gave up. It's fun to read, but not worth my time to contribute to.
I concur with MZM: We don't want to become that.
Cheers, -- jra