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(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)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.
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