On 10/15/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/10/2007, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/15/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I, for one, will in that case find -very- inventive ways to determine that things fit a speedy criterion. :) Realistically, though, we need -more- cutting, not less. We've got plenty of writing done already, but far too much resistance to cutting, a normal and healthy part of any editing process.
If that's the way you feel, you could probably delete everything I've created, FedEx me a box of razor blades, and come out ahead.
Less whimsically, I think too many of us carry that immediatist, "db-notreadyforprimetime" attitude.
I spent an hour today clearing up after someone who'd deleted a swathe of disambiguation pages with four or five article-worthy redlinks and one link, then redirected them to that page. And then gone through more disambiguation pages *removing* redlinks from them - again, things which obviously were going to be articles.
I really do despair, sometimes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JHunterJ#Disambiguation_pages Ugh...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ParkingLotTherapy (!)
—C.W.