On 9/17/05, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
One unfortunate tendency is that people who want something cleaned up expect other people to do it. Thus they become a part of the problem.
I disagree. Back when I regularily did RC patrol (I haven't in a while) I certainly was not going to take the time to clean up every badly formatted article I came across; there isn't enough time to do, not with the current rate of editing on the Wiki. Someone who marks an article for cleanup may not be helping the project as much as one who actually cleans it up, but she is helping more than someone who does nothing at all. And we don't get to choose the amount or the nature of the help we get from our editors: they do (or do not do) what they want to do.
If you want something done in Wikipedia, either do it yourself or ask other people to do it for you. Don't whine about it not being done; that just makes people not like you.
Kelly