[WikiEN-l] Always make articles as complete as possible

[Daniel Ehrenberg]

--- "Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz"
<living_english_structure at go2.pl> wrote:
>  From [[Wikipedia:Always make articles as complete
> as possible]]
> 
>
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> One of Wikipedia's [[wikipedia:Policies and
> guidelines|rules to consider]]:
> 
> Whenever you write a page, always make it as
> complete and comprehensive as
> possible.
> <br>Don't create an article until it is in form
> ready for publication.  If you feel that your
> article is seriously incomplete and you are urged to
> publish it please insert boilerplate text from
> [[Wikipedia:Stub]] into the article.
> 
> This rule is meant to supersede [[Wikipedia:Always
> leave something undone|
> "Always leave something undone" rule]] that is
> regarded obsolete.
> 
> This rule is open for debate.
>
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> 
> Articles happen to be reviewed almost
> instantaneously (as they appear on RC)
> or they can stay unreviewed with embarrassing errors
> for months (years?).
> 
> Cooperation and collective authorship that are
> behind the 
> "Always leave something undone" rule were great in
> the old days when there
> were 50-100 edits daily not 3000+.
> 
> There's no guarantee that a proportion of articles
> slip form the RC and
> plunge into the Wikipedia's great information soup.
> 
> This is an observation from perusing the ancient
> pages list.
> 
> Regards,
> Kpjas.

I think both rules are horrible. Just do the best you
can do. If you make an obvious typo, someone might fix
it without doing anything else. And if you insist that
everything that is written must me
encyclopedia-quality, nothing will get done. I think
we should each write as much as possible in each
article, but not more than that.
-LDan

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