Improve, don't remove. Unless the paragraphs they add are unsalvagable,
rewrite them. They are indirectly countering systemic bias.
2008/2/7, Andreas Hoerstemeier <ahoerstemeier(a)spamcop.net>et>:
Florence Devouard wrote:
Hmm. In other words, we'll be happy that the
content improve in Thai
related articles :-)
That what I would call the optimistic view. But I have seen
the first
edits yesterday - three out of four editing the wrong article, the one
about the town instead of the province which they planned to do, and all
the text sounds like it comes from a tourist brochure, with very POV
statements. So I had to reword (and thereby shorten) the text
completely, work it into the existing text to remove duplicates, as they
did not care at all that there was other text before. I am talking about
[[Petchabun Province]], the other three misguided edits went to [[Pathum
Thani]], [[Narathiwat]] and [[Songkhla]]. Also, many of the photos
uploaded seem to be copyright violations, or at least uploaded without
understanding the license stuff at all.
The worst - I have tried to talk with each of the new contributors, and
they all seem to either not understand at all what that yellow bar "you
have new messages" means, as they just continued despite my revert and
notification.
BTW - they did hire students for doing the edits, it is not done by TAT
employees directly, though I wonder if anyone at TAT ever tried to edit
before making this press release, or they are ignorant on how Wikipedia
works and just know that "everyone can edit" and thought that'd be a
good idea for spreading their brochure texts.
I have sent an email to the contact listed on the TAT announcement page
http://www.tourismthailand.org/news/release-content-466.html
yesterday to offer my help in making them edit without disrupting,
cleanwashing articles or turning encyclopedic articles into tourist
brochures, so far I did not get a reply yet. But I still hope that if
handled correctly the TAT could really help to contribute on the articles.
Andreas Hoerstemeier
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