What you can do is first start a section on the talk page about the topic and which sentences/sections could be changed. Then go ahead and make the intended edit on the article and then link to the section on the talk page in your edit comment. Then any editor who may potentially revert or have an issue with the edit will see that link and can go directly to that talk section that you started.

The markup used for the linking in the edit comment is the same as the wikitext markup. For example, an edit comment like this:

... see talk page for discussion.

would be marked up:

... [[Talk:Article name#Section heading|see talk page]] for discussion.

This might help start discussions about low-traffic article topics that would otherwise languish at the bottom of the talk page for weeks if not months.

It takes a cool head to continue sometimes when discussions head toward the sewer. But we strive to stay exactly so cool, and lots of us even take a bit of guidance from Paul Graham's "How to Disagree" http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html and the pyramid diagram based on it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy_of_Di...