Ray Saintonge wrote:
The people who regularly nominate articles for cleanup
would do well
to spend time doing cleanup instead of creating work for everyone else.
I think both have a purpose. I've cleaned up (and written) hundreds (if
not thousands) of articles, but I don't always have time or expertise to
fix something I stumble across. IMO, if I find a new page that is
clearly grossly subpar, it's better to at least tag it than to
completely leave it as is. Not tagging it often leads to really
terrible non-articles not being discovered for months, since once stuff
gets past NewPages and RecentChanges, it gets buried amidst 500,000+
articles. (And yes, I've found untouched stuff from 3-4 months ago when
hitting RandomPage).
-Mark