On 10/15/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)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.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk