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File:Philwelch.jpgPhilosopher-editor Phil Welch in a moment of self-reflection
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Here's a barnstar for being good to the Star Wars articles. --Coffee 05:04, 5 September 2005 (UTC)For work on VfDs, Take care, Molotov (talk) 22:32, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
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Constructive edit warring
As opposed to simply reverting back and forth, I like to review any two edits and devise a third, better edit that uses the best aspects of both while improving. This is better than simple reversion, and I, for one, would like to see any "edit war" using these techniques escalate beyond control. Here's a prototypical example. This diff shows a distinctly poor edit that made the article less readable. My successive edit was a selective improvement on both versions. Occasionally, an edit will be made that's all bad. In those cases, yeah, I'll revert, or just leave it for awhile until I can do a copyedit on the whole article (as to not single out certain edits and thus certain editors).
Inspiration
"I was recently in Brazil. I was recently in India. There are people there without electricity, without computers, without internet, without healthcare. Those people could give a shit about whether we have a link on a toolspage to a tool that might bring in some revenue, and whether some people consider this an affront to their aesthetics. But they need books. They need educational materials. They need freely licensed work they can modify, adapt, redistribute, copy freely, so they can learn what they need to know to have power in their own lives. Misplaced Pages is for them. Not for us. So, we need to be very very very careful about commercialism, and we need to be very very thoughtful about how we can use money to change the world, and that's why I do everything that I do. I hope that explanation is helpful." --Jimbo Wales in #wikipedia, October 23, 2005.
#wikipedia bash
BabaJobu: Vague, the only respectable way for a girl to rebel is to have lots of sex with lots of different people.
Philwelch: BabaJobu: And only if those people include myself.
Vague_Pant: Concur with Baba and Phil.
BabaJobu: Phil, actually the rule refers to me, not you.
Philwelch: BabaJobu: If she's fucking lots of different people she'll get to both of us eventually.
Vague_Pant: So will venereal disease.
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