[WikiEN-l] Blocking anon page creation was an experiment, wasn't it?

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed Aug 23 08:16:08 UTC 2006


On 8/23/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> I'd certainly put it in the top 100, even the top 10, although probably
> not the top 3.  When a user looks up an article, the worst possible
> result would be to find a misleading or otherwise incorrect article.
> The second-worst result would be to find no article.  The third-worst
> would be to find a somewhat shoddy but not misleading or wrong article.
> So I'd rank "we don't cover that at all" pretty high on the list of ways
> our coverage of a topic could suck.

I agree. I personally feel that a one sentence description with a URL
link to a page that covers the subject thoroughly is a *very* valuable
addition to our encyclopaedia. I wonder if others agree?

Steve



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