On 10/11/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
OK, now the question *I should have* asked.
How is a moving a marker to designate a preferred version functionally *better* than simply reverting to a chosen edit in the article's history?
Sometimes it's useful to have additional "in progress" information in an article. That new information might not be completely fleshed out and presented in the perfect way, or maybe it is well presented but just hasn't been fact-checked by anyone other than the original author. It still is useful, though. Think of it like software development, with a stable and a current branch. There's bleeding-edge-not-quite-fact-checked Wikipedia and there's stable-fact-checked Wikipedia. All without forking or protection of pages. The trick I think is making "marker movement" a slower process than article development. That's where I think a process like the FAC process comes into play.
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Michael Turley User:Unfocused
Anthony