Why reverted?[]
I was catching up on recent changes to the page and noticed a block of edits by User:Josiah Rowe in August were reverted by User:Gvsualan. I'm having trouble understanding the reasoning. The edits seemed to be in good faith, and overall positive changes to the page. They included a summary explaining the edits; the reversion had no edit comment about the reasoning.
Josiah's edits had 3 main concerns. His tense corrections were eventually re-added in December by another user - extra work that could've been avoided if the original edit hadn't been reverted. I have not seen "Strange Energies" yet but his appears to be a reasonable description of what happens to Riker in that episode, a description that is still missing from the current (reverted) page despite having two quotes from the episode featured later. And while I wouldn't mind a quick mention of Thomas in the top paragraph, I agree the current (reverted) version focuses too much on that one incident, spending over half the top paragraph on it.
More concerning than the exact content of the changes is the manner in which it was reverted - as a minor edit, with no comment. Wikis are collaborative. Reverting good faith edits is an inherently conflict-generating action which at least deserves a comment if not a talk page discussion. And reverting major edits is not a minor edit. To me it seems like this flew in the face of several wiki principles such as "Assume good faith", "Revert only when necessary", "Explain your edits", and generally respecting other users. Some of Josiah's edits have already been re-added, and I'm tempted to add more of them, but since I have no idea what the disagreement was for the initial edits, I don't know if I'll trigger another round of unexplained reversion.
Unrelated, what I assume is a new fandom default skin makes the talk page template look abysmal. The source edit box I'm currently typing in also has odd dotted lines around each paragraph and the cursor is misaligned from the text (especially in later paragraphs). Anyone know about that?
- jerodast (talk) 08:21, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
Well figured out the skin issue at least. Preferences => Appearance => FandomDesktop => Theme => "Revert to wiki preset" ugh - jerodast (talk) 08:27, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- The "Assume good faith" should go both ways, you know, instead of your obvious attempt to throw someone under the bus. It is highly likely that it was a bit of collateral damage from an inadvertant "rollback" click while scrolling on my phone through the rc and/or I was trying to click a different link and hit the rb instead because the rc wasn't completely loaded before I clicked whatever it was I was after. Either way, it's fixed. Thanks for the overly verbous way of asking, "what happened here?". --Gvsualan (talk) 14:18, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
- "Overly verbous" (verbose?) or not, thanks for pointing that out, Jerodan. I didn't notice the reversion of those edits at the time. And thanks for fixing it now, Alan. —Josiah Rowe (talk) 04:37, 6 January 2022 (UTC)