And how can we mark it as even nice? A template could disrupt the page, but IMHO, any type of mark on the article page is just asking for trouble. Plus, I still do not know how can one define a "done" article on here and how many will be protected on a trial basis.
Regards,
Zachary Harden
From: Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world? Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:29:02 -0700
Phroziac wrote:
There's nothing wrong with the minority thing, but it is pretty funny. I completely agree with locking completed articles. Why should they be edited if they're done?
A "done" article? There's no such thing.
I hope Jimbo's just been misleadingly quoted, personally. I would like to see a system whereby versions of an article can be marked as "nice" so that it's really easy to get to the most recent "nice" version. Perhaps even have the "nice" version be the default one shown to non-logged-in users and/or users who set a preference for that, with the edit link still taking the user to the current version instead. But I think officially permanently locking an article because someone thinks that it's "done" is a tremendously bad idea. Article protection is a very blunt instrument, blunter even than user bans, and I believe using it this way would damage Wikipedia far worse than any vandalism it might prevent.