It's not because they're not bold, but deciding on culling and eventually rewriting is time-consuming and not something everyone has time for. At least with one word edits, the article shows up in recent changes.
Mgm
On 2/20/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/19/06, Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com wrote:
We're not like a provincial university where the local legislature has decreed that that everyone has to be accepted in regardless of ability. Given that we now have a surfeit of volunteers, perhaps we should be thinking about ways to gently raise the bar, rewarding the good editors while inducing the poor ones to find another wiki more in line with their talents.
We have a surfeit of volunteers? Maybe badly utilised volunteers, but I see evidence of a lot of work to be done and not enough people to do it.
Gripe for today: people who make one-word edits to badly written articles. How do we get people to be very bold on budding articles, without using "be bold" as an excuse to rewrite established articles from scratch without consultation?
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