[WikiEN-l] Porchesia

Carl Peterson carlopeterson at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 14:48:35 UTC 2006


On 10/3/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 03/10/06, Jake Waskett <jake at waskett.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:23 +0100, David Gerard wrote:
>
> > > The bot would have to be semi-auto, i.e. a human would have to look
> > > over the result.
>
> > What makes you say that?
>
>
> (a) people will be happier if there's a human pressing the button (b)
> in a crappily-formatted article, the source info may be easy for a
> human to spot but hard for a robot. I just changed [[Riptides]] to
> take the {{unreferenced}} off it since the ref was given as plain text
> as the last paragraph. (I put that in a more standard format as well.)


While I agree there should probably someone reviewing the changes, a
"patrol" would probably pop up whose sole reason for existence is to try to
put sources on everything _or_ (and this is what I fear might be more
likely) to speedy half the articles out of existence.

Carl



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