Do we want people to try test edits of [[World War II]] rather than creating [[pancakesMMM!!!]] as a sandbox/test edit. No we don't.
We don't know that this would be the effect. A great deal of logically plausible human behavior doesn't happen. For example, nothing in a
newspaper
vending machine stops someone for paying for one copy and taking
several.
Let's put dpbsmith's insight about the newspaper vending machine on the wiki somewhere. It's a variation of the "honor system" that can be used to explain to CRITICS why we are so confident that Wikipedia can be relied upon.
It all comes down to trust. Who is worthy of your trust? And how do YOU decide this?
Uncle Ed
Let's put dpbsmith's insight about the newspaper vending machine on the wiki somewhere. It's a variation of the "honor system" that can be used to explain to CRITICS why we are so confident that Wikipedia can be relied upon.
It all comes down to trust. Who is worthy of your trust? And how do YOU decide this?
Uncle Ed
Thanks Ed. That actually puts this in good perspective, for me at least. A bit of a "lightbulb" moment.
Ian