[WikiEN-l] A proposal to improve war-prone pages.

Tue Jan 13 20:50:04 UTC 2004

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>Viajero wrote:
>
>>Adam Carr demonstrated on articles like [[Anti-zionism]] that it 
>>seems to make a huge difference if ONE individual takes charge of 
>>the article with no particular authority except the confidence of 
>>other contributors. Adam is by no means impartial (who is?) but he 
>>has a gift for synthesizing various POVs into an effective, well-
>>written organic whole.
>>
>I think this will work for any topic, provided an individual can be 
>found who can win the confidence of the other contributors. I myself 
>have managed to gain a degree of trust at [[Silesia]], and I have 
>hopes that it may be sufficient to enable me to do in the Balkans 
>what Viajeron suggests for the Middle East.
>
Agreed.  To gain that confidence you need to be seen as listening to 
both sides of the dispute.  It's an approach that is superior to the VfD 
process.  Starting a discussion with "I want to delete your article." 
does not promote a collaborative approach to the problem.  It brings out 
defensive attitudes.

Ec