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