On 1/31/06, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne(a)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