On 3/31/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, doc wrote:
Perhaps a more honest reply would have been:
"We're sorry you had to complain about this. Regrettably that's the price you pay for our determination to retain as many articles as we can, even though we can't currently maintain most of them. You see, if we change things we might upset some of our editors who might have some of their unreferenced articles deleted by mistake. Basically, we're more concerned with that type of collateral damage than with wrecking your
life.
If that's really a problem, then make a policy specifically related to biographical information in articles.
A proposal was made to actively delete *all* unsourced articles. As an attempt to solve your user's probplem, it's massive, massive, overkill.
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Accuracy is nice, but if we have it at expense of a coverage (a lot of which is accurate but unsourced) I prefer a wide coverage. It's easier to fixing what we have than creating new articles from scratch which will just reintroduce creation paranoia (and probably the second time we hit the 1000000th article). So that's what I will do. Try to promote fixing the articles we have.