[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

[Risker]

I like the "raise the notability bar" idea that Doc has, and perhaps Slim
Virgin's threshhold might be the right course.  I recently stumbled into a
biography stub on a person I would certainly have thought was not
particularly notable. The article required about five minutes of work to
clean up - and thought that would be the end of it.  As it turns out, it was
loaded with commercial links and open proxy editors (some of whom were
apparently being paid to add the commercial links). So what started out to
be a five minute project took several hours of work. I am sure there are
thousands of articles like this, and it is demotivating to editors to have
to work this hard to clean up an article that is of questionable value in
the first place.

Risker



On 3/29/07, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Slim Virgin wrote:
> > On 3/29/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
> >
> >> It needs to be clear up and down the line that the arbitration
> committee will support people who remove unsourced information, as long as
> they are nice about it. But these things should never come to us, people who
> resist removal of unsourced information should be clued in long before it
> comes to that.
> >>
> >>
> > The other solution is to stop publishing biographies of living
> > persons, or at least to offer subjects deletion on request.
> >
> > By hosting living bios, and by inviting anyone in the world to edit
> > them, we're encouraging bad editing in a quantity we have no hope of
> > controlling.
> >
> Wouldn't really work though, because people would just add the
> problematic material in other articles. I don't have any bios on my
> watchlist these days, but still see additions of hearsay about celebs
> visiting cities and national parks, music video shoots in the desert,
> and the like.
>
> Stan
>
>
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