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