I've noticed the replies to the favorite articles question at RfA. Increasingly, even the best editors have worked almost entirely on one particular page or set of pages.
On 6/21/07, Skander - shinywater@gmail.com wrote:
As we get bigger and bigger, the reward gets bigger and bigger as well, period. POV pushers are often able to be around for a very long time, as long as they don't vandalise. We should be much more severe against Single Purpose Accounts. I've seen people edit nothing else than one subject (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Rhode_Island_Red) and still be treated as a regular editor.
SPAs have no place in Wikipedia. Once it is noticed that 90%+ of a certain contributor's edits are on promoting one view on a subject, whether it may be well-written, sourced etc, I don't think we should tolerate this. It is SO easy to use WP to promote a particulars opinion right now.
-Salaskan
2007/6/20, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 19/06/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 18:25:19 -0400, "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
We've always been a target for vanity, spam and all manner of self-serving crap. See BJAODN. (Not to say that things don't change when you're in the top of nearly every Google search, just that people have feared and fretted over vandals and barbarians from day one.)
Difference: the reward is now greater, and with it the determination. I think people like Jason Gastrich have showed us this.
I'm not sure. I think the effect could just be numbers - i.e., there's a certain proportion of persistent nutters who just can't be told, and we get more readers, so we get more editors, so we get more nutters.
- d.
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