On Sunday 08 February 2004 02:09 pm, Sunir Shah wrote:
In response to my suggestion,
A cheaper solution would have been to wait a while, say a day or two, and then delete the problematic text after the user had forgotten about the page.
Rick writes,
<sarcasm> Sure. People don't EVER use their Watchlists to make sure the garbage they put on a page didn't get deleted. </sarcasm>
In this case, that wasn't happening. Reality is always the winner.
One might also first ask why a person feels compelled to babysit their own text on a collaborative work.
Lots of vandalism and copyright violations sneak past the RecentChanges patrol.
Characters whose single goal it is to insert their bias roam Wikipedia.
New additions of content are often accompanied by significant spelling or grammar mistakes.
Best, Sascha Noyes