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If every single edit you made was reverted, maybe they weren't really constructive edits? Just food for thought. > If you run into an asshole in the morning, y
by cooper12 10y ago
If every single edit you made was reverted, maybe they weren't really constructive edits? Just food for thought.
> If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole. - Raylan Givens, Justified
On a more serious note, I always hear people complaining about getting reverted. What they don't realize is that, often, their edits really are just bad. Here's some of the stuff I have to revert daily:
* Test edits/gibberish
* Vandalism
* Original research [0]
* Changing stuff to match their variety of English [1]
* Making the grammar worse, or going against the Manual of Style [2]
* Improper tone [3]
* No edit summary giving a rationale for the edit
A lot of the time, the changes people make are just arbitrary or don't improve the article. If you ever feel you were improperly reverted though, you can always bring it up on the talk page.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Nati...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles#Tone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_artic...
- mason240 10y agoConsidering this very common experience had by people trying to contribute, I think your saying applies more to the "full time" entrenched editors, who are acting as wall of assholes blocking a wider group of contributors. Also, that saying has been around alot longer than Justified.
- cooper12 10y agoI mean I just gave you the reasoning of entrenched editors, they're just not often good edits. These complaints come from people who think that Wikipedia is obliged to take any of their edits just because they took the time to hit the submit button. Wikipedia has policies and standards to uphold and people would complain if we went the other way and accepted all garbage people felt necessary to dump on the site. Also, the people who bring up these accusations never list the articles they were reverted on. Show me some of these edits improperly reverted and I'll personally help reinstate them or explain what was wrong with them.
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