[WikiEN-l] More thoughts on the 3-revert rule

Sun Feb 13 19:43:32 UTC 2005

Chad Perrin said:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>> I've run into people like that, I'm sure we all have.  But I really
>> don't understand why you would claim that using talk with newcomers
>> and mavericks is useless.
>
> I don't think that's what was being said at all.  My interpretation of
> phrasing was not that "using talk with newcomers and mavericks is
> useless," but rather that there is a statistical trend of "useless"
> effect to discussion with certain demographics.  That doesn't mean that
>  one shouldn't try talking to members of such demographics, but rather
> that one should understand that sometimes such attempts at reasonable
> discussion are more prone to failure than with other people.

I think my phrasing was sloppy.  I meant that I don't think discussion is
*ever* useless.  There is simply no point at which, in my opinion, it is
acceptable to resort to edit warring--certainly not to the level where one
editor alone is in danger of breaching the 3RR.