Talk:Meta-philosophy
From Academic Kids
There is a problem with the editing tools. A heavily attributed and carefully written rewrite of this entry (which would have also undone the 'vandalism') was destroyed apparently since it was submitted just as the 'revert' was applied. This is a damn shame as it is not going to get written again. As it was, all I felt like doing was adding the 'see also' links. Consider this a bug report about the tools, and a complaint about the process of reverting. In general, silly edits get noticed and new people are encouraged to rewrite by their presence. Therefore, there ought to be a wait before any reversion, to see if someone else has something intelligent to say on the topic. What I had to say on it, was destroyed, and I don't care enough about this topic to write it again.
So, fix the tools.
- You should have been presented with a screen called "Edit Conflict". Your version of the text would have been in the second edit window. If that window is still open then your version of the text is still in it. If you closed that window then you just deleted your own work. BTW, most of us use external text editors to make substantial changes to articles. Otherwise browser crashes tend to destroy hours worth of work. --mav 23:08 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)
- The most common problems I have seen that lose an edit are always some stupid browser problem (or an operator error, like clicking the "back" button while editing), not Wikipedia. I've seen the browser:
- Dump the entire edit in transmission.
- Insert trash characters that caused all or part of the article to appear to have been lost (but you could still find it if you edited again and removed the trash characters).
- Discard the end of a long article and refuse to let you do anything but deletions yourself.
- If you absolutely insist on writing an entire long article from scratch in the browser window... do frequent saves (e.g., every paragraph. BTW, This also reduces the probability of an "Edit Conflict" hit.). And remember to double check your edits with the "show preview" button too, to make sure it is formatting correctly. -- RTC 23:56 Dec 19, 2002 (UTC)
"was destroyed apparently since it was submitted just as the 'revert' was applied..." -- do you mean someone did a "rollback"? That doesn't remove the version; rather it inserts a copy of the old version at the head of the page history. Just tested this on the sandbox. -- Tarquin 00:03 Dec 20, 2002 (UTC)
Pejorative tone
The article is badly skewed. Before asking how meta-philosophy is possible, and criticizing it, it should be explained a bit better what it is.
