[WikiEN-l] New York Times article

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Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 6/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>> The missing piece of data is: what proportion of anonymous editors are
>> good contributors?  If it's very small, then it's a non-issue.
> 
> I have a theory that for any change made by an anon editor:
> 
> - if it's a deletion, it's probably vandalism
> - if it's the addition of more than a sentence, it will probably be
> unsourced and get reverted
> - if it's only a net change of plus or minus 5 characters, it's
> probably a useful copy-edit
> 

Sceptre's second law: If only five bytes have been added to an article
in a diff by an IP, it will almost always be the word "gay".

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