Andrew Lih wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:42:44 -0400, Delirium
<delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
I think the majority of Current Events editors would disagree. The
page has been the place to highlight significant news events, and
linking to articles related to them, largely regardless of article
quality. In fact, consider it a good, timely way to fill in articles
with relevant info.
Quoting policy point 4 from [[en:Wikipedia:In the news section on the
Main Page]]:
"The article must be updated to reflect the new information and a have a
recent date linked (but remember: Wikipedia is not a news report so
relatively small news items should not be put into articles; thus those
type of news items should not be displayed on the Main Page)."
This has been the policy for some time, but it seems to routinely go
ignored, which is a bad thing, IMO. If I weren't a Wikipedian and came
to the site and saw a news article that caught my attention, but upon
clicking through found something a week out of date that didn't even
mention the news item in question, I wouldn't be very impressed.
It seems people often use the Current Events section of the main page as
more of a POV-pushing forum. They see some news story they want to
advertise and list it, even if they don't want to take the time to write
an article about it. I think at the very least forcing people to write
an article about what they want to advocate ought to be a prerequisite
(at least then we get an article out of the deal).
(I should note that many of the entries *have* been good, like the
recent US hurricanes.)
-Mark