From: geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>
Because that person would be thinking like an edit warroir. You ask
for outside help. How hard is that?
Easy to ask; often hard to get. People are busy, they don't know anything
about the topic, they don't want to get drawn into "edit wars" (particularly
if they aren't your buddy or don't know you). Often an RfC will end with
zero or one or two people commenting on a Talk: page, and then leaving.
Even if they all agree with one editor, they are rarely interested in
getting involved in any other way, precisely because they are "good" editors
who don't want to edit war. Either you just give up, and leave the soup
bone nonsense in (respecting process over content), or you end up edit
warring (respecting content over process). Most of the "process" idealists
here seem to be repeating the mantra "just follow the process and everything
will work out". On the other hand the "content" idealists seem to withdraw
from editing after many months of frustration.
Jay.