On 29/08/2007, SPUI drspui@gmail.com wrote:
charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
I find that simply working on WP is the education one needs to realise what is missing. "Good stubs" are still, well, good. They tend not to require special skills to write.
One example I've seen mentioned several times is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge . Because people made stubs for every crossing of the Mississippi River in and below the Twin Cities, we had an article - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge&...
- before the bridge collapsed.
Which has to have helped the speedy expansion of the article after the collapse. And since Wikipedia is quite possibly at its best with current events (this year alone, at least two articles I can think of have received praise in mainstream media for reporting a highly useful synthesis of the facts as they were developing), that has to be a good thing.