[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

[John Lee]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>On 2/28/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 2/27/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>The nominator in this case is a suspiciously new editor who has
>>>precisely one edit in article space (inserting a "POV" template).
>>>Nevertheless with his *ninth* edit he nominated for deletion an
>>>article about a reasonably well established webcomic, and to date he
>>>has made some 30 edits to the AfD.
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>>>Something stinks.
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>>I don't see any obvious connection with another user, though, and
>>don't think sockpuppet witch-hunts are generally productive.
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>Nor I.  But is this the caliber of editor we're attracting these days?
> This is a perfectly good, encyclopedic article about  verifiable,
>referenced webcomic.  What on earth is it doing on AfD in the first
>place? When  did Wikimedia start putting up signs saying "we've run
>out of paper, please delete some articles to make more room?"
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As the number of registered users approaches infinity, the probability 
of running across an ignorant editor or troll approaches 1. (Hm, I just 
came up with that off the bat. Something to add to Raul's laws if it 
isn't there already.)

John