At 20:14 -0400 28/8/06, Anthony wrote:
On 8/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/28/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia won't be finished in a day...and some times we need to just try things out if we are to find good solutions.
Yep. My heart is not bleeding that anons couldn't make their usual truckload of crappy articles.
So are a truckload of crappy articles no longer being made, or do you think you can identify the people who are making them?
Anthony
I have found two articles that needed attention within the past few days. I probably came to Wikipedia via a Google.com search. In other words, I did not start in Wikipedia.
// pauses to reflect
In one case, an obituary from "The Times" had been posted verbatim when the person in question had died in March 2006. By August 2006, the full copyright text was still there, so I removed it and created a biographical entry. I then bought the book that this person had written, and started to add references (the book and its ISBN etc) and other information, and linked to the Times article as an external link.
In the second case, the person is still living I believe. He was born in 1941, and is household name in the East End of London (UK). I added a couple of redirects and will probably "wikify" the article next time around. It has these: {{tone}}, {{references}} and {{wikify-date|August 2006}}...
I have often stopped from creating an article for a living person, and I note that there is now clear policy on this, which I welcome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography
When I started being editing, and I am a late comer (January 2004), there was no clear policy (or I was unaware of it).
Gordo