[WikiEN-l] Slipping quality as Wikipedia gets bigger (formerlyCan you trust Wikipedia?)

[Martin Richards]

That is a very sad situation, and unfortunately not uncommon. While we have 
a policy of "anyone can edit" I don't think things will change much, unless 
we have a "stable version" or similar idea.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Puddl Duk" <puddlduk at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Slipping quality as Wikipedia gets bigger 
(formerlyCan you trust Wikipedia?)


> >
>> Please name a few of these articles in serious decay.  I am very
>> interested in seeing several examples of this.  So far, all I've seen
>> is vague affirmations that this indeed is happening.  I don't doubt
>> that it has happened, but I'd like to have a look to better understand
>> the trouble.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Turley
>> User:Unfocused
>
> [[Gas turbine]]. The article was mostly written in the first
> sixty-five edits
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gas_turbine&oldid=6665037)
> . The following ~eighty edits have contained a handful of
> improvements, but for the most part they are spam, vandalism and
> reverts. The article hasn't deteriorated that much because a few
> editors periodically clean up the spam and revert vandalism.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I don't consider my writing in this article very
> good, and I'm often amazed that an article I worked on can be made
> much, much worse!  But I'm tired of spending time removing spam and
> repairing the whole article and associated links from anon edits that
> originate from a turbine manufacturer's ip address (for example).
>
> I won't work to improve this article anymore, its a waste of effort. I
> just move on to things  that don't require constant babysitting.
> Haven't had the heart to take it off my watchlist though.
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