On 7 Aug 2010, at 03:13, William Beutler wrote:
I do think that kind of degradation happens over time, and not just because a FA made the front-page. So, I would favor locking a FA on the front page for 24 hours, FWIW. So that's my position on dealing with FAs... just lock 'em for awhile.
For and against arguments for this can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:For_and_Against_TFA_protection (To save anyone repeating ones that have already been written down. ;-) )
On 7 Aug 2010, at 01:25, stevertigo wrote:
Destructionism: The tendency for Wikipedia articles which have reached an advanced degree of completeness and encyclopedic value to be edited in increasingly destructive ways, simply because perfection has already been achieved or nearly achieved, yet articles remain open to editing.
-SC
[[citation needed]] please. ;-) Or rather, a solid example (or statistical trend) that actually shows this. If true, then I would have thought it easy to demonstrate - lots of examples would appear at Featured Article Review...
Thanks, Mike