--- Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Cheney Shill wrote:
So, patrolling for obvious and insignificant vandalism inserted into articles like "Charlotte is bonkers!!!"
or
"Bill Gates sucks!!!" is, like, way more important?
saying that the removal of a commercial link from the "external links" section of an article related to that product is always more important than the removal of "obvious vandalism" like the examples you
I am. NPOV doesn't mention vandalism. It does mention links, commercialism, and advertising.
dispute that. When J. Random Reader visits an article with obvious vandalism, he snorts and thinks "man, Wikipedia sucks."
He does? I think I have to dispute that. According to previous discussions here, leaving in obvious, insignificant errors (e.g., speeling) is often intentional, improves participation, and hooks R. Anonymous Reader into contributing regularly. Why don't these intentional errors also convince J. Random that Wikipedia sucks? Or are you suggesting that intentional errors left by admins are a form of vandalism?
When he visits an article with a spam link, he will likely not even notice it.
Another dispute. When R. Anonymous visits, she notices immediately and reasons that the article is yet another taken over by shills and that Wikipedia is yet anohter ad site that can't be trusted.
Fortunately the very obviousness that makes it important also makes it easier to deal with.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Do it 'cuz it be easy. That's precisely why it should be left to the novice editors, just like spellung and grammar error. For the experienced and admins, it should be at the bottom of their to-do list.
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