[WikiEN-l] Abusive editors

Wed Mar 9 17:24:48 UTC 2005

JAY JG wrote:

> Thus, hypothetically, if Cheese Dreams had said Jesus was born in 100 
> BCE, and Steven had insisted it was 4 BCE, the mediator would have 
> insisted that they should both compromise and say that Jesus was born 
> in 52 BCE.
>
More often than not, a root of the problem is the POV-pusher (and often 
the valiant defender) has not read [[WP:NPOV]] at all, or maybe has only 
read it quickly once.  In your example above, both editors could be 
sentenced to read it twice and do a report on it.  Then they might com 
up with the singularly NPOV idea that P-ists says P and Q-ists say Q.  
These disputes are usually not all that difficult; the combatants simply 
lack a common framework, and they spend all their time digging in 
against each other instead of finding common ground.  Adam Carr in this 
case could have done much better at winning over Peter as a true 
Wikipedia ally.

Tom Haws