[WikiEN-l] The downside of creating perfect articles

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Bennett wrote:

>I have noticed that when you create an imperfect article (no stub tag,
>no categories, or something badly wrong), someone tends to show up and
>fix it. Often they add something else in the process. But at least you
>get a tiny bit of feedback.
>
>However, when you create a "perfect" article in one go (referenced,
>with categories, links and incoming links), you actually get no
>feedback. No one is drawn there to fix some automatically detected
>fault. In short, no one even seems to see it.
>
>This strikes me as slightly sad. But then, I haven't had my coffee yet.
>
This makes it easier to understand the purpose of the old rule:  always 
leave something for others to do. 

Ec