Snowspinner wrote:
A nice sentiment, but in this case naive - I slapped dispute tags on them, and I'm already being threatened with reverts. I fully expect to be reverted by morning. If one cannot even insert a dispute tag without starting an edit war, how do you propose that the articles will be fixed?
Over time? They're as bad now as they were ten months ago, if not worse. Articles do not generally fix in the form of consolidation - as was pointed out in the cases of the [[Bill Gates]] and [[Jane Fonda]] article.
I think it's actually not completely hopeless, having waded in a bit. I just cleaned up [[Moss v. Bush]], which admittedly was less of a mess than many, and hopefully it'll stay decent. At least 80% of the material in most of these articles appears to have been added by [[en:User:Kevin Baas]] (with [[Mass v. Bush]] he was basically the only person who had edited the article), so it seems more a case of one POV warrior with a ton of time on his hands than a more widespread problem. But we'll see.
-Mark