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There is no questions that some editors do indeed play unfair by resorting to all sorts of devious tactics. Do not despair , you are certainly not the first editor to encounter the tactics that you mention. And there are many impartial and smart editors and admins in wikipedia that can all help make some progress in the resolution of disputes. Also if you follow the [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines]] to the letter you can usually get your inserts to hold and you can insist that they do by having wikipedia to back you up, of course there are always the vandals... Based on what you say though, you ought to read any of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_critical_of_Islam books] to get a deeper understanding of the nature of the beast and what you are up against. --[[User:CltFn|CltFn]] 02:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC) |
There is no questions that some editors do indeed play unfair by resorting to all sorts of devious tactics. Do not despair , you are certainly not the first editor to encounter the tactics that you mention. And there are many impartial and smart editors and admins in wikipedia that can all help make some progress in the resolution of disputes. Also if you follow the [[Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines]] to the letter you can usually get your inserts to hold and you can insist that they do by having wikipedia to back you up, of course there are always the vandals... Based on what you say though, you ought to read any of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_critical_of_Islam books] to get a deeper understanding of the nature of the beast and what you are up against. --[[User:CltFn|CltFn]] 02:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC) |
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: I agree with your observations. But also try to remember that your own contributions also carry weight and even though you can sometimes be outnumbered in revert wars, if you insert information that is sourced and irrefutable , there will be other wikipedians that will back you up. Also I think that when you are the new kid on the block some editors feel they can push you around a bit. This is especially true for anomymous editors who get very little respect from what I can see. That tends to go away after you've been around for a while and are more well established. |
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On a cheerful note , most wikipedian editors that I have seen in Wikipedia that start out as pretty partisan gradually seem to develop more critical thinking which in my book is not a bad thing. And who knows where a little critical thinking will lead them? Surely to a better place than their prior folly--[[User:CltFn|CltFn]] 05:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC) |
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There is no questions that some editors do indeed play unfair by resorting to all sorts of devious tactics. Do not despair , you are certainly not the first editor to encounter the tactics that you mention. And there are many impartial and smart editors and admins in wikipedia that can all help make some progress in the resolution of disputes. Also if you follow the Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines to the letter you can usually get your inserts to hold and you can insist that they do by having wikipedia to back you up, of course there are always the vandals... Based on what you say though, you ought to read any of these books to get a deeper understanding of the nature of the beast and what you are up against. --CltFn 02:56, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
- I agree with your observations. But also try to remember that your own contributions also carry weight and even though you can sometimes be outnumbered in revert wars, if you insert information that is sourced and irrefutable , there will be other wikipedians that will back you up. Also I think that when you are the new kid on the block some editors feel they can push you around a bit. This is especially true for anomymous editors who get very little respect from what I can see. That tends to go away after you've been around for a while and are more well established.
On a cheerful note , most wikipedian editors that I have seen in Wikipedia that start out as pretty partisan gradually seem to develop more critical thinking which in my book is not a bad thing. And who knows where a little critical thinking will lead them? Surely to a better place than their prior folly--CltFn 05:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)