[Foundation-l] Corporate vanity policy enforcement

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

>On 29/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 9/29/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>And remember: most text appears to be written by newcomers and
>>>occasional editors, not the regulars. (Numbers not firm on this one
>>>per AaronSw, but I understand others are checking his work.)
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Newbies add text because they don't know how to do anything else.  They 
have not evolved far enough yet to be spending their entire day wanking 
on their policy.

>>>See, that's the sort of thing we're good at. Be open to input from
>>>all, even if a tweaked vandal-checking bot puts it in a patrolling
>>>admin's "#redirect [[round file]]" list.
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>>Problem is that there isn't much else you can do. Unwikified, linking
>>to a site that contains the article title in the url and created by a
>>one off user (and not linking to myspace). But that could apply to so
>>many things.
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>So? Linkless articles and orphans are easily added to a round-file
>list. It's not quite like they hit 'save', think it saved and it
>disappeared, but it's that with a delay.
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It's a lot easier to put an article on the road to deletion than to 
start creating links on it.  There is a risk that wikifying might 
require thinking about what one is doing.

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