The only reason an article should become more difficult to edit is because its content is inherently harder to improve, not because it's practically more difficult to edit.
That's one of the reasons I'm so strongly against agglomeration -- massive, multi-topic articles are much more difficult to edit than concise, single-idea articles, even though any given massive, multi-topic article might be as well written as any single-idea article.
On 3/15/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, we were arguing different things. I was saying that it's acceptable that an article like GWB become more diffficult to edit. You're saying that it's not acceptable that it become frozen.
On 3/15/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/15/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/15/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
It shouldn't become more difficult because editing would require engaging a thicket of non-human-understandable templates or dealing with a 100,000 word document, or satisfying anything other than objective criteria to make a change.
If Wikipedia articles get frozen in stone we lose in the long run.
The devil's advocate might ask, what changes need to be made to [[George W Bush]] that aren't getting made because it's all too much hard work?
In other words, the semi-protected articles probably *are* approaching perfection. In as much as GWB can ever be perfect.
Wouldn't be a very good devil's advocate. There's been millions of consequences of the Bush presidency, and millions to come. Until the corpus of George W. Bush-related entries covers all of them, the articles won't be perfect. As the gateway to that information, [[George W. Bush]] will constantly need to change.
Or shorter: W. still has two years to go in his presidency. An article about W. that stopped history at 2006 would be strangely incomplete. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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