[WikiEN-l] 3RR and gaming the system

Fri Mar 4 21:25:16 UTC 2005

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:19:25 -0500, JAY JG <jayjg at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> >
> >In this case, I'm amazed saying "Australia is a republic" isn't
> >being counted as simple vandalism. Repeatedly putting in misleading
> >and plainly factually incorrect information certainly counted as
> >vandalism when User:Michael was going hogwild at it.
> 
> Tsk tsk, David.  Respect the process.  You must leave the erroneous
> information in, and attempt to reason with the inserter on the Talk: page.
> People who revert are simply thinking like an "edit warrior".  I'm sure the
> postings on this list, including those from the person promoting the
> "Australia is a republic"  idea itself,  have made it quite clear that a few
> well-chosen words in Talk: will have the person promoting the idea that
> "Australia is a republic" repudiating his views and voluntarily reverting
> his contributions in no time at all.

This is precisely the case. I can be swayed by facts and checkable
sources. Abuse and hand-waving just doesn't do it for me.

-- 
Peter in Canberra