On 10/15/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
geni wrote:
On 10/15/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
So (as ever) some care is needed here; anyone who got the idea that "any fact left uncited for 7 days may/must be removed" would be setting themselves or the encyclopedia up for a fall.
We don't have the manpower.
But that's not even the point. If the notion got entrenched that *any* fact-tagged statement left unattended for more than a week could be summarily deleted, I do dare to speculate that it would lead to abuses, completely apart from the question of whether every fact-tagged statement would receive proper attention.
I don't really see why it would lead to any more abuse than the notion that *any* {{no-source}} tagged image left unattended for more than a week could be summarily deleted.
Well, I guess deleting images requires an admin to agree, so maybe that's a reason. But on the other hand, a "deleted" fact can easily be re-added by anyone.
Frankly, I think what's *more* likely to lead to abuses is the notion that a fact which is completely unsourced can be left *in* the encyclopedia for more than a week. And it *has* led to abuses, lots of them.
Anthony