Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-08-21/Arbitration report

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Clarify wording

As a party, I probably should not speak, but would like to clarify the wording "what is perceived to be some editors' aggressive addition or reverting of infoboxes to articles without discussion." - Evidence is of adding infoboxes without prior discussion (which I frequently do for short stories and compositions (as the normal way of editing), - never any more for composers because I learned that infoboxes for Classical music biographies are contentious). Evidence is also of reverting infoboxes with little edit summary and no discussion started. "Aggressive" seems not a good term for both actions. A way of defining and reaching consensus is needed, for articles or even topics (such as operas, where the project recently made a new template available). Feel free to read the talk page of the case and especially the workshop were promising ideas were proposed which didn't find their way to the decision page, if you ask me. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:20, 26 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]