>>>> "RC" == Rowan Collins
<rowan.collins(a)gmail.com> writes:
RC> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:24:49 -0500, Joseph Barillari
RC> <jbarilla(a)cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> 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).
RC> Two places spring to mind: 1) The user in question's
RC> User_talk: page, where you could ask the user for their own
RC> opinion on the importance of this particular award and the
RC> possible consequences of doing this for every similar award.
RC> 2) The Village pump - although I haven't "frequented" it so
RC> much recently (since it was split into sub-pages, but also due
RC> to changes in my own commitments), this still seems a good
RC> place to get "mass opinion" on general issues (like "should we
RC> add this kind of information"). If there's an article being
RC> linked to which lists the winners (which would make sense, if
RC> we are going to include the information) then that page's talk
RC> page offers a third forum where the question can be raised
RC> (and of course, two of these three locations could simply
RC> contain pointers to the third, if that seemed easier to
RC> manage).
That seems like the best idea: ask the question at the user's talk
page, and add a pointer at the village pump. I'm not convinced that it
would be encyclopediatic to simply reproduce the magazine's list in an
article (as we're not adding any value besides linking to the
companies in question), but then again, we do the same thing with the
Academy Awards.
--Joe
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