[WikiEN-l] Administrator coup / mass deletions

[The Cunctator]

Jimbo has never been an active editor.

The BLPs aren't being deleted for being shoddy, they're being deleted for
not having references.



On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Cool Hand Luke <
failure.to.communicate at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I
> > reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind
> > me." eh?
> >
> > You older Wikipedians run along now; you've had your day. The adults
> > are talking now - I are serious editors, this are serious website.
> >
> >
>
> This is a radical misunderstanding of what I said.  This isn't an old
> editor
> vs. new editor issue.  David Gerard is hardly an arrogant upstart, and
> Jimbo
> Wales (one of the original Wikipedians) surely is not.  Both are firmly on
> the side of change with regards to retaining shoddy BLPs.
>
> It's a question of what policies would be best for the project right now.
> Policies that were good in 2001 no longer strike the right balance in 2010.
> Originally, our goal was generating content, but we now have tons of
> content--so much that readers are more concerned about reliability.  BLP
> subjects are most especially concerned that we get their entries right, and
> our project's credibility suffers most when they are harmed.  At this point
> in time, retaining shoddy BLPs is bad for subjects and frankly bad for
> Wikipedia.
>
> Cool Hand Luke
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