Talk:Game updates/20060615

Huh? What gives, Stabber? --Karlos 20:45, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Another issue with being verbatim with the official website, I presume. - 20:47, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Indeed. And you have broken 1RV. But you are an admin, Karlos, so you knew that. &mdash; Stabber &#x270d; 20:47, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * You never explained your RV. And your reasoning now makes no sense. I thought we already had that debate in the last update. --Karlos 20:51, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

Henchman drop money upon death!
Wow, that's an odd yet cool bug. I was doing a cap run in Perdition Rock with some henchman just a while ago. Some of those Hydras ambush us and killed all the henchman and every single time they died, they dropped about a sack of 93 gold! If you don't believe me, go try it out!--SavageX 21:08, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * I just did in Factions and the two henchmen did not drop anything for me. --Karlos 21:13, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Try doing it in the prophecies campaign too see if that works.--SavageX 21:16, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Me and all my guildmates across both expansions are seeing it. Also seeing the monsters kill each other and drop loot. --Gares Redstorm 21:23, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * I did a little more research on this bug and discovered that your henchman only seem to drop money only after you gained some dropped money. I first went after a bunch of hydras and flesh golems without getting any money drops and they didn't drop anything.  After I got a money drop of 107 gold from one of the monsters, I tried again with another group and the henchman started dropping sacks of 26-27 gold each.--SavageX 21:25, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Wow, it works :) I'll go try it in Factions too. --Karlos 21:54, 15 June 2006 (CDT)
 * [[image:Farming_Orion.jpg]]
 * Yup, works in factions too (in Jade Sea) --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:54, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

My personal policy on revert wars

 * 1) Do not re-revert.
 * 2) Do not re-re-revert, even if you explain your rational in the edit summary.
 * 3) Do not re-re-re-revert, even if you just explained your rational on the talk page a minute ago.
 * 4) Do not re-re-re-re-revert to the version that was the first reversion.
 * 5) Do not re-re-re-re-re-revert to the version that you know is right, just because you have stated your position on the matter on the talk page, unless the discussion on the talk page has been concluded one way or the other (consensus, overwhelming support of one side of the issue by the community, the other person drops the issue due to burnout, etc).

Having that said, I'm going to unprotect the article now. It's meaningless for one of the only two participants of a revert war to request bans and protection on the page. It is just as meaningless for the other participant to actually protect the article (at worse it escalates the revert war to the admin level). - 21:11, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * True, however, as an admin, I cannot let a user have his/her way with the system. An unexplained revert of the contribution on another user (who has a solid track-record) is not allowed in my book. and should not be allowed in this wiki altogether. Whenever I see an unexplained RV of someone else's work, I always review it. If I saw the reverted edit was plausible even, I will revert the RV.
 * In Stabber's case it was doubly annoying because she did not explain her RV, yet she had the time to get on my talk page and tell me I was in violation of Rule 6, section 3 paragraph (b). I think that was ridiculous.
 * Reverting an admin to protect an explained RV is even worse in my book. --Karlos 21:20, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Well, after your re-revert, and after stabber's re-re-revert, both of you have started talking on the talk page. Even if Stabber's explaination doesn't make sense or is extremely weak to you, at least you should not have done the re-re-re-revert.  And thus protection would not have been necessary.  What if you are having this disagreement with another admin, who feel strongly about his/her reason to revert as much as your reason for re-revert?  I see protection/ban as only necessary when one side of the revert war cannot be reached for comments/discussion.  If a discussion is taking place, even if the current version makes absolutely no sense to you, I plead to just leave it alone (or add a tag at the top of the page saying the content of the page is being debated etc). - 21:28, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Like I said, the way the reverts were done, necessitated (to me) that it not be left to stand. Protecting the page was necessary, once there is a user on a rampage, page protection comes next. --Karlos 21:34, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * GW:1RV says, if you find your stuff reverted, take it up on the talk page. It specifically says to not re-revert, even in the case where someone else wrongfully re-reverted.  --68.142.14.34 21:36, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * With all due respect, RV1 only takes place (in my mind) IF the reverting contributor bothered to explain his/her revert. An unexplained RV of someone else's work (especially a registered regular user) is -in and of itself- worthy of an automatic RV. We already established that a long time ago. --Karlos 21:40, 15 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Revert3 was explained, and Revert5 inherits the explaination. So just becasuse Revert1 is worthy of an automatic RV and Revert3 is identical to Revert1 doesn't mean you can automatically revert Revert3 and 5. - 21:46, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * My opinion, as I was trying to add useful information the entire time to both the talk page and the article (one getting edit conflicts, the other protected)...you both, Stabber and Karlos, are at fault of violating policy. Needless to say, you already know that. And in all the time I have been at this Wiki, I have never seen protection been used in such a way. And that last part Karlos commented on reverts, stating "especially a registered regular user", seems to suggest RV1 takes precedance over GW:YOU. That's all I will say, being a bystander and all. --Gares Redstorm 21:49, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Your indentation implies you are replying to my comment. Added to teh fact that stabber hasn't showed up in this discussion yet, the literal interpretation is that you are saying both PanSola and Karlos are at fault. - 21:55, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * A first revert takes the article back to its unchanged state; that's a safer point from which to start discussion. Assuming good faith of the initial person to do the revert should kick in at that point.  The only times I can see to bypass this would be if there's source material to show the revert changed an article back to an inacurrate state, or if the revert restores vandalized content (note: formatting is not content in this context of the contributions - hmmm, ran out of 'cont...' words). --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 21:53, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * I don't think we should get assume good faith involved, because that implies RV2 is not assumed good faith, and that is simply untrue. Revert wars happen between ppl unwilling to stand down but with good intentions. - 21:58, 15 June 2006 (CDT)
 * I only brought it up because of Karlos' comment "An unexplained RV of someone else's work (especially a registered regular user) is -in and of itself- worthy of an automatic RV", which ignores assume good faith in the justification for making rv2. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:02, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Barek, Assume Good Faith and You are valuable for the one reverting but not the original contributor? A revert is an edit like any edit. Taking out information is AS BAD as putting in wrong information. There is no known "safe-state" for an article. The article is in a safe-state perhaps prior to an anonymous edit stating unverified information. But Use A edits Article X to change the FORMATTING, Usr B reverts because he/she does not like it. How is that taking the article to a "safe state"?
 * Consider me an old stubborn fool, but an unexplained RV gets no good faith because it destroys "You are valuable."
 * PanSola, when Stabber did RV3, she was already aware that her RV is questioned and being debated. That's like me knowing that there is a debate about whether Onis are Demons and going to change all the Oni articles to say they are demons and then RVing anyone who tries to stop me. Basically, she had knowledge that he RV is unwarranted at this point without first going through the talk pages. She was using RV1 as the pretext for why her version should stay, but her version was an invalid RV unexplained and questioned. --Karlos 22:04, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Karlos, you are correct that an unexplained RV also ignores YAV and AGF. However, at that point it should be taken to talk.  The first revert takes an article to its unmodified state, which is as much of a "safe-state" as is going to be found.  In this case, the RV1 policy only impacts formatting; but it also applies to added or removed text.  A first revert restores the unchanged content, which gives a starting point to decide what should and should not be added or removed.
 * Don't get me wrong, I fully agree that we should clean-up the formatting of text copied from guildwars.com, as long as the text remains unchanged and retians its original context, spelling, and meaning. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:16, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Pan, you know what I mean. :P I was referring to Stabber and Karlos. Stabber has done what I would have done being in this situation...taken a step back. --Gares Redstorm 22:07, 15 June 2006 (CDT)


 * Gares, 1RV is already ahead of "You are valuable" if anyone can rv any edit then pull 1RV on your work and say, sorry, you can't touch this. 1RV needs to be subject to YOU. The comment about registered rgular users is common sense. We all check any article edited by an anonymous user because we don't know who is doing what. I am not saying an unexplained RV of an anonymous user's good work is any more acceptable. --Karlos 22:20, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

Though I am not trying to advocate any particular action, I personally find both Karlos and Stabber guilty of pointless, childish behavior that is destructive to the good of the wiki, regardless of any rules we have in place or the minutia of their priorities over one another. The spirit of wiki collaboration was certainly violated by both parties. By the second or third revert (let alone more!), both parties should be stopping and discussing and not changing the article any more. Recognize that you have a bias by that point and cannot be partial any longer. Take yourself out of the revert war. Be an adult.

It is no more correct revert someone's uncommented revert as it is to do the uncommented revert in the first place. Both parties should have asked what was going on instead of starting a war. Until both parties agree about a course of action, they should recuse themselves from changing that page.

Frankly, I'd expect one of the qualities of someone who is an admin to be more adult like behavior, willing to step aside instead of fighting. This is not a case where someone can get away with saying they were merely wearing different hats. Alert another admin (either party!) and ask for outside guidance. Page locks should never be necessary for this kind of thing, because at least one party should be willing to discuss and wait for other opinions while leaving the page alone. The fact that it kept going shows that at least two stubborn parties were involved (which I doubt either party would deny).

I don't feel there's possibly more useful stuff for me to say, given the now admin nature of this problem. I think the active admins need to figure out what should have gone on here (with respect to admin powers involved). When it was merely a revert war, at least most of the humans on this wiki could meaningfully comment. It's at a higher level than mere mortals like myself now. --JoDiamonds 23:00, 15 June 2006 (CDT)

New Greens
Rumor mill: --Karlos 22:43, 15 June 2006 (CDT)
 * Root Behemoths in The Falls
 * Rotscale in Majesty's Rest