On 1/26/07, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
It would be awfully nice if there were some simple differentiation in skin that could distinguish articles at different stages of development, so that leaving questions and unfinished statements in an article would not be unexpected or 'unprofessional' in an article written on lightly crumpled recycled paper; and unfinished ideas would not be unespected on some slightly grenapkin paper...
I suggested something like this once, whereby there are classes of articles, and what you can do to do an article depends on what class it is. Add an unsourced statement to an FA? No way, José. Add "(Probably similar situation in Europe, but I'm not sure.)" to a stub class article? Sure.
Then the idea is that articles should over time ratchet up from low quality to high quality, and can't be dragged down by adding poor quality material.
Steve