On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:41 AM, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> You would need some examples to credibly demonstrate this. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Good_and_evil&diff=379134639&oldid=378943442 > > An example of a restore, from 2008. 'Perfection by reduction' experts > trimmed it down to virtually nothing. Note that that second paragraph > could use some trimming, but the essence of its definition was removed > entirely.
Rolling the stone back up the mountains is what I might term this... i.e. the practice of mining old page versions for a version to revert back to. It seems slightly wrong somehow, and it would be WP:LAME for people to edit war over different "old" versions: "this version is best", "no, THIS version is best", "you are both wrong, clearly the FIRST EDIT was the best"... That would be a new phenomenon of "page history edit warring" that becomes more likely as the age of Wikipedia increases and the page versions for any one page increases as well. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
