On 08/04/2008, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
Everything is contraversial, and every article has cranks & the passionate trying to push junk into it.
See, this is actually entirely false. Almost no articles on Wikipedia are actually that controversial. (Greg Maxwell and Kim Bruning ran the numbers on this in January 2006.)
As I said, this appears to be a damage limitation exercise on the extreme cases - and is problematic in that it's messing up things for the vast majority.
- d.