Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:25:23 +0000, you wrote:
blanking or deleting the article= writeing off
the work. Not a nice
way to treat the previous writers. Telling them what is wrong might
work better.
I think you've rather missed the point. An office action is a quick
and temporary fix for an immediate problem: there is a clear
implication that the problem will be solved by the community in the
usual way we solve problems of accuracy and balance. After the
pressing problem has been fixed.
Jimbo wrote at 8:58 AM:
Rather, we should respond quickly and politely to
their concerns,
including in most cases, *blanking or deleting the article* and
*starting over*, being *extremely* careful as a community to get all the
facts right, to strike a fair and neutral tone, and to cite sources even
more extensively than normal.
Deleting and starting over implies writing off the previous work. In
fact, the it'd be really complicated to do otherwise since the GFDL
requires attribution and in the case of deletion the edit history for
the previous version is gone.
He also wrote at 9:04 AM:
I would say that in most cases, WP:OFFICE need not
result in protection
(semi-protection is more likely), and when there is protection it should
normally not be for more than a couple of days.
There seem to be some mixed
messages coming from him on this subject
since this seems to suggest that most OFFICE actions would be nowhere
near that drastic. Unless he means that the article would be deleted
permanently (to "start over") but not protected in a deleted state for long?