[WikiEN-l] Why cutting'n'pasting from Wikipedia is not a good idea

[The Cunctator]

On 3/15/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Skyring wrote:
>
> >I'd like to suggest something which I think should work. Whenever an
> >administrator edits an article, that version automatically becomes the
> >"stable" version that an unregistered reader will see. And it won't have
> >"edit" links all over it. Sure, it might have mistakes and it might have
> >POV, but the odds are that if an admin has had even a glance at it, it's
> >probably good.
> >
> I find this attempt to give admins even more power objectionable.  There
> are plenty of us who have been around for a long time without having
> become admins.  Many operate in limited non-controversial areas.  The
> result would be a huge number of articles that will need to be edited by
> admins; these articles previously managed quite well without involvement
> of admins.

Isn't it neat watching how bureaucracies form drip by drip through the
accumulation of a thousand authoritarian impulses?