On 8/21/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
I'd ask if anyone has any statistics on how often those tags are affixed and removed, but...
Wikipedians prefer to highlight and tag problems than to take 30 seconds to fix them, it seems. I can understand that larger cases crop up, and warrant attention from more than one person, but stupid little unsourced stubs don't need to be tagged - either find a source on the web, or find reference that a source might exist within five minutes, or "prod" it, or whatever we do now.
I don't think it's so simple. I almost always have a Wiktionary open while I'm working at the reception desk and it's so easy to hit random and tag imperfect articles with a couple of fix-it categories that doesn's take your brain away from your job like getting in and editing the article would.
Later when you don't have your mind split in two it's easy to go back through stuff you found earlier than look and fix at the same time.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
Do we still have AfD, or was it renamed again?
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