[WikiEN-l] Saying no to new unreferenced BLPs

[David Goodman]

There are few active people here who have not made that mistake, at
least once or twice; the only way to have no errors is to have no
encyclopedia.

What we are out to do is produce the most accurate encyclopedia that
can be produced by our methods--and it is already much more accurate
than anyone would have suspected beforehand, knowing the chaotic way
in which it was to be edited. Some people join because they see errors
and want to correct them; others join  because they see surprisingly
good things and want to add to them-- that was my personal reason.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> <<In a message dated 4/2/2009 5:18:23 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> carcharothwp at googlemail.com writes:
>
> Will,  look at the example I provided earlier in this thread.
> Established editors  and admins were blindly reverting vandalism and
> leaving an article in a  state of previous vandalism. How do you begin
> to address that  problem?>>
>
> You don't address it by allowing any admin who got their badge knowing next
> to nothing about NOR (as many don't) do remove the right of established users
> who have been in-project ten times longer than they.  I will never, not
> ever, agree to giving admins extra powers.  They already have several  powers they
> should not have in my opinion.  The idea behind admins, imho,  was supposed
> to be that they are helpful janitors clearning up messes, not theat  they were
> thought police enforcing the boundary line with clubs.
>
> If we want to create new powers, then we need perhaps new categories of
> user.  For those users who do not want to be police, but are quite willing  to
> enhance the content of the project, we should create a parallel track, not a
> subordinate one.  No matter what anyone states, if a reviewer's right can  be
> removed at the whim (yes whim) of any admin, then reviewers are subordinate  to
> admins.  They should not be.
>
> Will Johnson
>
>
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