Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, Stan Shebs wrote:
Driveby editing was a great way to build up WP, but now that we have the vast structure, we also need to think about how to maintain its integrity.
If maintenance is the goal, lock all existing articles and go to an expert system.
Of course, maintenance isn't the goal. Improvement is. Which is different.
Exactly, we want edits that make improvements. There's almost no chance that a driveby's unsourced addition to a featured article will improve it, for instance. In fact, FA watchers have already adopted an informal practice of reverting many of those on sight, they're simply not willing to spend all their time trying to salvage the marginal. Since we don't have statistics on sourced vs unsourced additions, it's impossible to say whether there are huge numbers of unsourced additions worth salvaging. Anecdotally, I think the crackdown combined with availability <ref> is having the desired effect; I'm noticing that even trivia sections are getting citations now, when such a thing was unheard-of a year ago.
Stan