[WikiEN-l] The Counter Vandalism Unit? Whaa?

Jesse W jessw at netwood.net
Sat Feb 4 00:46:51 UTC 2006


On Feb 3, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Fastfission wrote:
> On 2/3/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Incidentally, I have frequently noticed people making changes to
>> statistics like city populations, incrementing them by small amounts.

> The best way to deal with this in my opinion is to always have the
> reference for the statistics handy.
Exactly right!  That's why 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JesseW/References_proposal is a good 
idea.  If we can simply go directly to the external source when someone 
changes something, we can at least export our errors to that of picking 
sources, which is a major improvement...

Jesse Weinstein




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