On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:01:49 UTC, Sascha Noyes sascha@pantropy.net wrote:
On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:09 pm, Sunir Shah wrote:
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One might also first ask why a person feels compelled to babysit their own text on a collaborative work.
Lots of vandalism and copyright violations sneak past the RecentChanges patrol.
Characters whose single goal it is to insert their bias roam Wikipedia.
New additions of content are often accompanied by significant spelling or grammar mistakes.
Quite true -- but in addition, how about good reasons that involve no actual wrong-doing on anyone's part? People do sometimes insert stuff that one doesn't consider up to par sometimes with the best of intentions. If other people never created sub-standard stuff, why would you ever make revisions on an existing piece? (Stubs and your own creations would be the only things you'd work on.) When I've put effort into a piece, I know more about it than I do about a Random Article, and probably more than does a random WIkipedia editor; and it's not _just_ ego that inspires me to keep track of whether improvements to it are actually improvements.