[WikiEN-l] "Wikipedia approaches its limits" - Technology Guardian

[Bod Notbod]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Ian Woollard<ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> One of my pet hates: when an IP changes a figure in in infobox or
>> somewhere in article, with no comment, and no source. I've heard
>> reports of people doing this as sport, just to be annoying, but in my
>> experience, they're often right. But it leaves you in a real quandary,
>> if you can't verify it either way.
>
> I normally revert those, unless you can verify it it's just an
> unreferenced change. You can leave a message on their talk page though
> asking for a ref. Same goes for logged-ins.

I see a lot of these patrolling recent changes in Huggle. I look at
the user's other contribs and provided I can find just one in the same
day where he's blanked the page and written "SUCK MY ASS!!!" I'll
revert the numeric change and put "rv numerical change by bad faith
editor but editors may wish to double-check" as an edit summary.

Another warning sign is a number of numeric changes, without any other
sort of edit, in completely unrelated types of articles. I wouldn't
necessarily rv on that basis but I probably would if they've had any
sort of warning that day.