At 01:42 -0400 28/8/06, Delirium wrote:

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I have the same opinion. Most of the improvements to Wikipedia that have been ongoing, like requiring citations, improve the average quality of articles. At any given second, though, the quality can always be quite abysmal. A system like this one essentially smooths out the presented version, so the average reader sees something more like the average recent state of the article, rather than its instantaneous state. That doesn't magically make articles good, but it reduces the number of times people see really bad articles.

-Mark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Peter_Palumbo

Gordo