Margaretolson

Dispute Resolution

I have read the dispute topics but remain a little unclear on how disputes are resolved. [Autistic Savant] has a disputed flag, as near as I can determine because the definition was vague and did not match the usual definition autistic savant nor the definition on the [autism] page. I made some entries to that effect in the autistic savant talk page, waited a few weeks, and edited - I tightened the definition and removed the obviously incorrect entries from the list of examples. At this point do I remove the disputed label, wait for the admins to remove it, or wait for a few more weeks to see if anyone complains about my edits and then remove it?

You can remove the dispute label yourself if you think the issue has been resolved. I might suggest waiting for a few days to allow time for more occasional editors to notice the changes; but if there hasn't been any active discussion of the dispute for the past few weeks, there's a good chance it's no longer a point of intereest. In any case, if anyone disagrees with your removal, they can just add the tag back and you can then discuss the issue with them at your leisure. Kirill Lokshin 03:15, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

old, answered questions

I edited (before registering) the Apollo Computer page. It's slightly less bad now but it's still bad as I didn't want to wholesale dump someone else's work. I had trouble with a just correcting the errors as I think the second section could use a different approach. It's full of unsupported assertions and opinion, and reading it I wonder how familiar the author really is with Apollo. The source of this page is confusing - was it scraped from somewhere? But someone put in a lot of "citation needed". I'm reluctant to just wholesale rewrite it if the original author is about it fix it. It's not like my edits so far are anything great either - I just did something quick. And I need to check some facts w/ friends. So what's the polite/right thing to do here?

You can see from the "history" tab if someone else has recently been doing much editing to a page. If you want to make major changes it can be good to give an overview of your intent on the articles discussion page and see if you get any feedback, then carry on based on that feedback or lack of feedback. If people have a problem with what you are doing be prepared to stop and discuss. Also don't worry too much about the original author (beyond common courtesy) every time you submit you have the text "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it.", similarly who owns a page details this a bit further. --pgk^(talk) 19:31, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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