On 13/04/07, Virgil Ierubino virgil.ierubino@gmail.com wrote:
If there was a way to pick out a revision as being error-free (I assume, synonymous with "stable"), Wikipedia could potentially progress towards being an academically-citable encyclopedia.
My understanding is that "stable" is simply that. Not right, not approved, but... stable. A non-vandalised version of the current consensus on the article - you'll see the revisions from before someone vandalised it, or before a violent edit war kicked off, as the stable version, but it doesn't mean they need to have been individually factchecked.