[WikiEN-l] School Districts and notability

[Gallagher Mark George]

G'day Chris,

> On 5/22/2007 5:27 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> > 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...
> >   
> If maintenance is the problem, it would seem that tools like 
> semi-protection would be more useful than deletion. If an article 
> (school or not) is clearly poorly monitored, and is prone to 
> receiving 
> damaging vandalism (especially of the BLP/personal attack 
> variety), I 
> wouldn't be at all opposed to semi-protection in that case.

The problem is that (the plural of anecdote is data!) most of the beneficial edits about schools, in my experience, also come from new accounts/IPs.  For many of this class of article, if you're going to semiprotect it may as well not exist.


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