That is a very sad situation, and unfortunately not uncommon. While we have a policy of "anyone can edit" I don't think things will change much, unless we have a "stable version" or similar idea.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Puddl Duk" puddlduk@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Slipping quality as Wikipedia gets bigger (formerlyCan you trust Wikipedia?)
Please name a few of these articles in serious decay. I am very interested in seeing several examples of this. So far, all I've seen is vague affirmations that this indeed is happening. I don't doubt that it has happened, but I'd like to have a look to better understand the trouble.
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused
[[Gas turbine]]. The article was mostly written in the first sixty-five edits (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gas_turbine&oldid=6665037) . The following ~eighty edits have contained a handful of improvements, but for the most part they are spam, vandalism and reverts. The article hasn't deteriorated that much because a few editors periodically clean up the spam and revert vandalism.
Don't get me wrong - I don't consider my writing in this article very good, and I'm often amazed that an article I worked on can be made much, much worse! But I'm tired of spending time removing spam and repairing the whole article and associated links from anon edits that originate from a turbine manufacturer's ip address (for example).
I won't work to improve this article anymore, its a waste of effort. I just move on to things that don't require constant babysitting. Haven't had the heart to take it off my watchlist though. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l