Summary style (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Response to Bryan Derken)

Tue Jun 8 11:39:00 UTC 2004

Other people are going to reorganize "your" article from time to time or at
least try to. This can be done in good faith, or perhaps in bad faith,
'let's get rid of this "crap"'. Bryan Derken's effort appears to have been
in good faith. I think the better approach would have been to let him try it
out, then evaluate it and if it is not hopeless, correct whatever problems
come up. Saying No upfront is a power play in a situation where, despite
being the major author, you actually have no power. Thus, to prevail, you
have to be pretty aggressive.

Fred

> From: "Abe Sokolov" <abesokolov at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:43:43 +0000
> To: wikien-l at Wikipedia.org
> Subject: Summary style (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Response to Bryan Derken)
> 
> I did not get a good first impression of your editing style based on my
> experiences in that specific encounter either. You were utterly unengaged
> with the narrative and the historical aspects of the article. You only
> seemed concerned about shuffling around text, titles, series boxes, pages,
> and the like. But did you stop to figure other whether you knew what you
> were doing?