On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 21 June 2012 12:35, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Not bad David! >> >> I tend to take a bit more of a liberal guideline on fixing obvious >> blatant vandalism: "Google CEO Larry Page is a great big poopyhead" >> should be reverted no matter what, even if you have a conflict of >> interest, or are Larry Page himself, and would have thought this is >> generally accepted in the community. > > We are wedded to consensus; yet David had to walk a thin line. We are > not really used to giving prudential advice. In concrete situations I > hold myself to giving "correct" advice. The thing is that I am > probably using contextual cues that are hard to describe. (I'd better > stop here since I feel a go metaphor coming on.) > > Charles >
I do appreciate the difficulty here. Advice like the above should not be mistaken to also mean that one should revert "writer x of some obscure weblog described Larry Page as a great big poopyhead[1]". That should also be fixed, but a step back there and taking the talkpage route is the good idea there for a COI editor. That's a subtle point to explain to a Wikipedia newcomer. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l