Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 07:25:28 +0100 > From: Ian Woollard<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New tool: Write before you revert > To: English Wikipedia<[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 01/09/2010, stevertigo<[email protected]> 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."
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