[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Charles Matthews]

Bod Notbod wrote:
> So you quite commonly see people attributing a musical genre to a band
> that other people disagree with, and some anonymous users have a fine
> old time changing 5 articles per minute to state their FAVOURITE genre
> simply *must* apply to every band they like, regardless of the facts
> of the matter.
>
> Edit warring happens. And that is bad. So now I've noticed that people
> are putting in citations pointing to the All Music Guide and suchlike,
> which one hopes will help.
>   
That indeed is the problem with giving people a form to fill in, which 
is what boxed-info often is, rather than making them responsible for 
writing prose with justifications. It gets even worse under the heading 
of "influenced by", one of the hardest matters to prove responsibly.

Charles