--- Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/3/06, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
I agree. Way too many vandalisms from IPs and new users vs the *VERY* little to any
improvement
those user classes make to the article while it is a TFA. All the many reverts do is take time away from fighting other vandalism and pollute the history page with anon edit followed by
revert
times 50 to a 100 for any TFA. TFA is supposed to showcase our very best work, not a page
whose
only content for several minutes is 'I like farts'.
I don't think we expect to get much improvement to the front page FA from anons. We just want to prove that they can edit.
What? TFA is not a sandbox.
We don't need to encourage people to edit because we have 200 times as many readers as editors? I disagree.
Very few people create information yet we all consume it. That is a fact of life.
come to Wikipedia expect to see quality content not fart jokes. Because of that, vandalism is becoming increasingly less and less tolerable in my mind; even when it only is in the top edit for less than a minute given that one or more readers may have loaded that page in that time.
However I agree with this, because...
Ideally I would like to see the saving of *all* edits by anons and new users to be delayed
until
they are OKd by a trusted user (to be defined) or a clock runs out (default could be 5 minutes
and
admins could increase that time on a per article basis).
...I totally agree with this. I suspect it would be somewhat tricky to implement, but yes, this would help a great deal with vandalism. I don't think it's "unfair" on anon users that their edits are delayed for a while, and I think it would have a deterrent effect on vandals as well. ("What? My fart joke isn't even going to get its 1 minute of fame?")
There will be a minor undesirable side effect of denying anons and new users the instant gratification of having their valid fix or addition delayed. But that is greatly mitigated by the much, much longer time their edits will be viewable by all and the fact that getting rid of the delay is something that only takes a bit of time and effort on their part (becoming an editor in good standing ; should be auto-determined based on age of account and number of non-reverted edits).
-- mav
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