[WikiEN-l] Encyclopaedia standards

[JAY JG]

>Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>It would be useful to collect and report statistics about vandalism
>and edit wars. I have 16,000 articles on my watchlist (too many, I
>know!) and vandals touch maybe five of those per day, with most of
>the edits occurring on topics familiar to the general public (Julius
>Caesar, Steve Jobs, RMS Titanic, etc).

As you point out, it really depends on the articles on your watchlist.  I 
have about 1,000 on my watchlist, and the other night I was dealing with one 
vandalism per minute, even after pages were protected (after protection they 
went after the Talk: pages instead).

Jay.