Tom Haws wrote:
Blair P. Houghton wrote:
Tell that to the guy who reverted me, hollering
"consensus!" from the
back of his mule, then having me jailed for arguing the point, then
including everything I added (but retaining a bit of stuff that is
soon to be gone anyway).
Blair, I will say it directly. You are in the wrong in this case.
Please note the following steps:
I am not.
1. Find a page that you think needs
"improvement".
I did.
2. Ignore the talk page and *boldly* fix the page.
I fixed the page according to what I saw on the talk page.
3. When you are reverted, bite your tongue, go to the
talk page and
say, "Huh?".
You presume the person doing the reversion was right not to say "Huh?"
to me.
4. Spend the next 4 months discussing your POV and
building consensus
toward a better solution.
Would have loved to do that, but it wasn't being offered to me in kind.
Others were accepting of the edits I made but only too willing to
pretend that I was breaking the rules.
You failed the above at step 3.
Again, you are wrong.
I recommend you come to an admin with hat in hand,
promise not to
revert again, and go to work building a new, better consensus. That's
the way it works.
I did nothing wrong and I will not kowtow to blind authority; I will
work to make authority responsible. That's the way it works.
--Blair