[WikiEN-l] a valid criticism

Fri Oct 7 00:32:04 UTC 2005

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Stan Shebs wrote:

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> 2. We need a way to discourage well-meaning but less-able editors
> from crumbling good articles. On my watchlist I see a lot of editors
> (some logins, some anons) adding nonsequiturs or redundancies,
> randomly rearranging text, adding useless templates en masse, etc.

I've actually had some luck with this. If someone makes an edit that
doesn't hurt anything, but doesn't add anything either, I simply
revert with the edit summary "rv: not an improvement". This seems to
send a message to people that edits need to be constructive and have a
plan behind them. Just moving stuff around isn't good for the Wiki,
and a solitary edit like this could seem to have no effect, but in the
aggregate they can make for a ridiculously disorganized article that
is not at all a pleasure to read.

- - Ryan
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