David Gerard wrote:
Chris Owen wrote:
I suggest that we tackle this by putting all new articles into an approval queue - they shouldn't appear on Wikipedia unless they meet basic quality standards. If a reviewing editor judges that the article meets an objective set of criteria, it should be "published". If not, the submitted new article should either be deleted or sorted into a "needs improvement" category outside the main namespace.
Probably the simplest way to do this would to tag the article with an appropriate template that contains a category.
Mind you, cleanup is already so big and growing so fast I can't see us getting through it in a reasonable time ...
I still think that adding the unsourced tag is the only practical first step. Then we need to recruit people who are willing to be fact checkers and documenters. This can't be done at the same time as vandal patrol, because it's detailed painstaking work which could take a long time. Most things should be fact-checked, including those that already have references.
I would love to see synchronized side-by-side edit boxes which could be used for this, as well as other uses.
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