[Wikipedia-l] Lir and Christopher Columbus

[The Cunctator]

On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:25, lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
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> 
> In the early days of Wikipedia before we had specific
> processes and guidelines, it was right and good that we
> were a free-for-all; we were in the process of discovering
> what works and what doesn't.  But we're in a new phase now.
> We have a process, and we know it can work, and we know
> what doesn't work.  We should take advantage of that knowledge
> and /enforce/ the process we know works.

I don't really buy the "we need less freedom because we're wiser"
argument. At least that what this argument seems to be saying.

I'm also really not convinced that "we have a process, and we know it
can work, and we know what doesn't work". Rather, I'd say we're quite
far from a stable process of developing articles. (e.g., right now
there's a big mish-mash of very long subheaded entries on some subjects
and collections of small entries on other subjects--a discrepancy that
needs to be resolved.)

--tc