[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Sat Jun 17 12:15:25 UTC 2006

On 6/17/06, John Lee <johnleemk at gawab.com> wrote:
> This is something of a perennial proposal. The main problem I see with
> it is the potential for edit conflicts - if a valid edit goes through
> between when the probationary edit is made, and when it is approved,
> there might be trouble merging the two edits together.

In such a case I suggest sending the conflicting (probationary) edit
back to the original editor (as a talk page message), and letting them
deal with it. Remember, people in this state have already done
something annoying...the onus is now on them to do something about
their reputation.

Steve