On 21/08/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)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?
Rob Church
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