[WikiEN-l] Re: Strange fetishes

Fri Mar 4 07:22:48 UTC 2005

Abe Sokolov wrote:

> Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen at shaw.ca wrote:
>
> Actually, IMO at least it seems perfectly reasonable to enforce the 3RR
> even against people who are making reverts that when made in isolation
> would be considered "reasonable."
>
> That's actually my point. For Wikipedia to be managable, procedure 
> must be followed and policies must be enforced. Thus, the statements 
> that I'd quoted were **unfortunately** reasonable. The problem is the 
> nature of the procedure making this approach reasonable.
>
> IMO needs radical change, along the lines of Larry Sanger's 
> suggestions. The way things are now, certain trolls flourish while 
> professional historians like Jtdril 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jtdirl#3RR_block) and Adam 
> Carr get blocked. Some bold structural changes would serve to correct 
> this problem.

Some bold individual changes by certain people in their personal editing 
practices would also serve to correct this problem.

--Michael Snow