[WikiEN-l] School Districts and notability

[Andrew Gray]

On 22/05/07, Will Beback <will.beback.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The real problem we have on Wikipedia with school articles, in my
> opinion, is the amount of vandalism they receive relative to the number
> of editors repairing them. Since school-aged kids are a main source of
> vandalism this isn't a surprise. However since this vandalism often
> takes the form of derogatory remarks about living people it's a serious
> matter. Reducing the number of school articles which aren't being
> watched would help.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - we need to think about
maintainability in a concrete sense as well as "notability" in an
abstract one. If an article is going to need maintenance, but it isn't
going to get it, it becomes a net liability to the project...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk