[WikiEN-l] While we're at it, NOR line-by-line

[Wily D]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:34 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/04/2008, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  >  Everything is contraversial, and every article has cranks &
>  >  the passionate trying to push junk into it.
>
>
>  See, this is actually entirely false. Almost no articles on Wikipedia
>  are actually that controversial. (Greg Maxwell and Kim Bruning ran the
>  numbers on this in January 2006.)
>
>  As I said, this appears to be a damage limitation exercise on the
>  extreme cases - and is problematic in that it's messing up things for
>  the vast majority.
>
>
>
>
>  - d.
>
Not perpetually contraversial, but yeah, it crops up almost anywhere
(I'd review such a study if you know where it's at).

But WP:V and WP:NOR put contraversies to rest.  They take away any
leverage, and make contraversial articles uncontraversial.  There's
exactly no other method in the encyclopaedia for dealing with bad
faith editors who obey WP:CIVIL unless you have such overwhelming
number advantage you can simply 3RR them.  But if you're working on
"Coriolis Force" with two-ish regular editors who hang around there,
you're hosed without those two policies.  Absolutely hosed.

WilyD