On 5/3/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/05/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Someone?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cleanup_by_month
15000 articles.
Looks like anyone who might be that someone has enough work on their hands already.
Yep. But the vast majority of those articles are good enough that they're better than a conspicuous hole where they used to be. I don't object to us aiming for higher standards, but I do object to us nuking anything that's trying to get there - if slowly.
Steve
For my part I think there's a bare minimum of effort which the authors of an article need to perform before they can expect someone else to fix things. Verifiability - pointing to a source where someone can find out more information, is a big part of that bare minimum of effort.
Of course not everyone knows about verifiability, so you should generally give them a chance to correct their own mistake first unless it's plainly obvious they are simply abusing the system.
Anthony