On 6/20/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Sean Barrett wrote:
It is entirely untrue that "spoiler warnings were deleted en masse by one or two people using automation software without reading the articles they were in."
If you assume it takes a minute per article, 45000 articles is 750 hours of nothing but reading Wikipedia articles. And the number 45000 is only the last number we have; it isn't really the total.
It's impossible to read all those articles. It *had* to be done without reading the articles (and certainly without achieving consensus on each article individually.)
If you assume the "one or two people" part is correct. However, I just checked 4 articles on movies and found 4 different people removing the tag: Tony Sidaway, Eclecticology, David Gerard, Zoz. Add myself to the list and we're already up to five people.
I can't speak for the others, but when I removed the tag I was not using automation software. I certainly didn't read the entire article each time though, and I don't see any reason why I should have to.