On 18/07/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So I take
out the claims, slap a prod tag on it, and let it be. To my
delight, this has been mostly successful - only two or three got
reverted with whiny edit summaries, and one of them got taken to AFD
and deleted anyway (on the grounds that we really, really aren't a sex
offenders registry). I strongly feel the encyclopedia was
substantially better for doing this, and isn't that the point?
Absolutely. What I'm afraid of is that this process/PROD will end up
being
used on articles like [[Demographics of Latvia]]
simply because there
are
far too many idiot gold farmers out there.
Mmm. I don't think we need a new formal process for this - but I do
think the existing expansion of PROD into "put up or shut up" is
occasionally necessary.
Yep. My main fear is that this process becomes a haven for goldfarmers who
want to rack up their edit/delete/tag count without reading the articles.
The last thing we ought to be encouraging is a templated mechanical process
that does not look at the individual circumstances of every article.
Johnleemk