User:Valereee/Editor

There's a page on my watchlist, Hainanese chicken rice, that gets chronic POV-pushing edits from IPs. It's a nationalism issue: everyone from Singapore thinks we should be saying it originated there, while everyone from Malaysia believes it is a Malaysian dish. It's wearying to keep having to revert these edits. Not worth protecting the page, but ai yi yi. Yet another edit trying to pull the assertion in one direction or another. The 999th time I have to revert one of these edits, I lose my temper.

But for editor #999, who has exactly three edits, it's the first time they've made that edit. They don't know I've been dealing with these edits for years. They don't know there are fifteen different discussions on the talk. Not only can they not find the talk, they don't know there is a talk. They haven't discovered their own user talk. All they know is they see something they know is wrong, and they decide to fix it.

This is an opportunity for Wikipedia to welcome a new editor. The simple fact they, like most of the citizens of their country, think the article in question is incorrect doesn't mean they're ill-intentioned. This is a person who is ready and willing to edit when they see something is wrong. Even if they're wrongheaded about this particular edit, we should be welcoming such editors.