[WikiEN-l] 3RR and gaming the system

Sat Mar 5 01:29:34 UTC 2005

Except that, like Daeron before you, you haven't been swayed by facts and checkable sources on this particular matter.

Arno
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From: Skyring <skyring at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] 3RR and gaming the system
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 08:25:16 +1100

> 
> 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
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