On 4/1/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Be creative. Locking article creation is not.
Peace & Love, Erik
I don't know. I'd certainly call it creative, but as with anything it has its negative sides. The ideas you presented are good too, but don't address the fact that with the constant stream of articles coming in, cleanup efforts aren't scaling. It takes a LOT more time to properly reference an article than to write an unsourced new one and if nothing is done to address the difference, cleanup efforts won't ever have a chance of catching up.
Of course, reaching that point is a pipe dream, but with several thousands of articles being unsourced or containing dubious statements tagged (probably a fraction of the real number) and that number going up all the time, efforts need to be made that help cleanup efforts catch up with creation efforts.
Mgm