[WikiEN-l] Re: The whole point of wikipedia

[Martin Richards]

From: "Tony Sidaway"

> I'm suggesting that it's not around in significant amounts.   I find
> some now and again.   I find instances of poor quality writing and bad
> organization more often.  A few articles are prone to link-spamming,
> others get POV-pushing.  Compared to that, old vandalism is rather
> rare.

The kind of old vandalims that I find particularly disturbing is stuff like 
this 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Bunsen&diff=23686756&oldid=23532482 
which occurred on september 21, then was edited in by 2 more editors, until 
I reverted it on October 5th. The reason I find it particularly disturbing 
is that the anon only ever made that single destructive edit, which was not 
only not noticed but actually totally ignored by the next 2 editors, and I 
only noticed it because I thought it was odd we had such a crap article on 
an important person. If he had been less important I imagine no one would 
ever have noticed.

It is stuff like this that really makes me think there must be a better way 
than having a policy of "Anyone can edit".


Martin