I only read there occasionally, but I have noticed there have been a few threads that have had some valid and constructive recommendations for improving articles; in fact, most of those recommendations appear to have been implemented when I go to check the articles. (Obviously, there are a lot more WP editors who read this site than post there.) Unfortunately, I have also noticed that even the useful threads tend to go off topic and get filled with irrelevant editor-bashing. That is just plain bad moderating, in my opinion; in most message boards I use (and the one I co-moderate), that wandering off into irrelevancy is either moved to the correct thread or deleted outright. Because of this tendency, even if I found a thread there that had useful content in it, I would be very hesitant to post a link to it on WP; though I don't agree with the outright banning of any website, I have no faith in WP to keep any threads free of abuse.
On 6/1/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
The Mangoe wrote:
Here's a recent example, which actually led to an AfD for some nonsense:
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=9010
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Er, yeah, that would arguably be constructive. However, a link to WR wouldn't really be necessary or appropriate in that particular case. All a reader would have to do would be 1) Read the topic, 2) read the article, and 3) add {{db-nonsense}}. (The article wasn't sent to AFD. It was a valid speedy)
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