On 1/31/06, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
YOU are free to stop bothering WIkipedia's collaborative work if you think it amounts to a poor dog suffering a terminal illness in great pain. ME are free to continue adding my improvements to the greatest knowledge base in history if only you would stop trying to kill the dog.
Ouch, I expressed myself really badly. My analogy was meant for an invidual bad article - do we hang onto it hoping that it will get better (knowing that there is a shortage of willing manpower to do this sort of thing), or do we just kill/bury/hide the article?
Wikipedia is great - it just has a rather long "tail" (appropriate for the analogy...) of bad/short articles. Working out what to do with them all is the problem...
Steve