[WikiEN-l] So what do we do about this?

[Carbonite]

I wish you the best of luck with trying to improve these articles, but I
hope you're up for a challenge. The amount of resistance to even the
smallest change in these articles is simply staggering. I can't even imagine
what would happen if they were speedied. Fire and brimstone instantly comes
to mind.

Good luck!
Carbonite

On 10/17/05, Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> [[2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities]]
> and its 8 sub-articles, at present, take up 56085 words. This is five
> times as much as the whole of our coverage on Immanuel Kant.
>
> The articles are, needless to say, utter crap - full of conspiracy
> theory rantings and POV, they read like the collected waste products
> of a month of blogging, which is, not coincidentally, exactly what
> they are.
>
> All of them have been VfDed on two occasions a year or so ago when
> the election actually happened, and survived. In that time, they've
> only gotten worse, more bloated, and more absurd.
>
> What can we do about these articles, and other cases of what we might
> call POV by volume - [[Jack Thompson (attorney)]] and [[Westboro
> Baptist Church]] spring to mind here as well.
>
> My inclination, quite honestly, is to speedy all nine of these
> election articles and let people start over. Whatever comes now, a
> year after the event, cannot possibly be as appallingly bad as this.
>
> And don't just shoot back with {{sofixit}} - there's no good fix. It
> would involve deleting 90% of all 8 of these articles, a change that
> would be quickly reverted anyway, and, with the way my editing has
> been going, probably lead to my getting another RfC, because they
> seem all the rage.
>
> We need some sort of system that's going to untangle this kind of
> mess - something that doesn't rely on enough people with a whit of
> common sense watchlisting the articles and being willing to angrily
> revert the stupid, because, quite frankly, that obviously didn't work
> here.
>
> Thoughts? Jimbo in particular?
>
> -Snowspinner
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