Hi,
I'm curious about two things: one, the proper forum to discuss mass
minor edits (a user or a few users who make a lot of small, related
changes to lots of unrelated articles), where using the talk pages for
the individual articles would be impractical (owing to the sheer
number).
If that was too vague, here's what prompted it: A user named Alice9
has gone through what looks like every article for every company
mentioned in the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" list
published by "Working Mothers Magazine" and added a reference to that
accolade in the article.
Now, I don't think that Alice9 isn't spamming Wikipedia (there's no
link to the magazine). Nor do I think this is any sort of vandalism --
Alice9 has far more contributions to Wikipedia than I do. I do,
however, question the necessity of adding this accolade to 100
articles (some of which, like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University, are long enough as it
is). A list of every accolade bestowed by every women's magazine would
make the Ford article unreadably long, let alone the Ben and Jerry's
article. It would be unfair to exclude the others, but impossible to
include them all.
Normally, I'd post my concerns on the talk pages, but with hundreds of
articles affected, that's impractical.
So, two questions: one, what's the best forum for matters like this?
Obviously, the talk pages would be inefficient, since the same
arguments affect hundreds of articles. Second, assuming this is the
best forum, what do people think of the issue at hand?
--Joe