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Post by TrekMD on Nov 20, 2012 14:55:14 GMT -5
Hmm, that may be an idea glipitude. If more than one person is changing stuff back that Dingley removes, maybe he'll get the message.
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Post by fury on Nov 20, 2012 15:39:28 GMT -5
I agree. I'll steer clear of it. You can see from my exchange with him that I tried very hard to be as nice as possible. Still couldn't help the one jab... "...I find it equally strange that someone takes the time to correct the game list  " Hey, at least I added the obligatory winking smiley! |
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Post by wyldephang on Nov 20, 2012 15:56:32 GMT -5
Perhaps if a few of us cooperate and edit the list together, rather than George doing it (since it looks like it has mostly been him lately, and since he had the problem with Dingley), and also if we add references for the new entries ... then maybe it would stick. If it's just one person (George) so far, and Dingley has expressed skepticism, perhaps he would view it less personally if others made the same edits ( and added references). I underlined the portions that I think will make the most convincing argument. You may make a collective editorial push, but without citing your references, I think the moderators would only redouble their efforts and push back. The sheer size of the Vectrex community will have no bearing on the issue. The MMA Project is huge; it consists of hundreds of active members. But many people from our community were banned from Wikipedia for testing the patience of the moderators. I'd enter the articles for deletion (AFD) discussion threads and there would be a number of entries that were traced back to disabled accounts. And once the discussion threads started to resemble a graveyard of former MMA Project members, many people simply gave up. In the end, we triumphed over the moderators, but we made some significant concessions and there was a lot of work involved in restoring the articles to their original state--we needed to link them differently and categorize them a certain way--and even now, moderators are sifting through the MMA Project, marking various "offending articles" with deletion tags. If you're going to fight back, then you've got to be prepared not only for the work that sits in front of you, but for the extensive edits that come in the aftermath!  |
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