[Wikipedia-l] Re: An outsider's view on en-admin-only whatever andthe rest

[Phil Boswell]

"Delphine Ménard" <notafishz at gmail.com> wrote 
in message 
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On 1/25/06, Maru Dubshinki 
<marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If the problem is really apparent, why can't you tag the page 
> > appropriately?
> > I don't think adding a new layer of procedure will help anything;
> > people who already have the time and such will already be working on
> > the cleanup category.
> Sure.
> Let me just take a look...
> [[Category:NPOV disputes]] 1800 articles tagged.
> [[Category:Articles which may be biased]] 196 articles tagged
> [[Category:Accuracy disputes]]  1000 articles tagged
> [[Category:Pages needing attention]]  198 articles tagged
> [[Category:Possible copyright violations]] 199 articles tagged
> Of course, my "urgent request" will be taken care of within the hour.

So modify your reply to the complainer: instead of saying "oh yes, I've 
taken care of it personally; you don't need to do anything" try saying "as 
per normal Wikipedia procedure I've tagged it for urgent treatment. Please 
feel free to help out yourself."

Maybe you can recruit editors this way, and at least they'll start with some 
sort of motivation. Obviously someone would want to check that said 
motivation didn't carry them away :-)
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]]