[WikiEN-l] Avoiding the dates issue

[geni]

2008/11/15 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
> And this:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Stiv%C3%ADn
>
> This is one of five different ways the Birth & Death dates are now being
> represented in the Project.

There are probably more. They will be sorted in time wikipedia tends
towards standardisation

> To put it plainly: The product this Project is putting
> out has become incredibly sloppy, both in content and presentation.

Become? Quite the reverse in fact. Sure there are poor articles out
there. Always have been always will be but fewer are critical articles
and individual articles are tending towards improvement.

An example UK canal articles have across the board improved from the
tiny stubs I was putting together 4 years ago.

> There
> are clear symptoms, and if detected and corrected soon enough, such a
> collapse can be prevented. I sense a hubris regarding the Project that is
> disturbing; and can ultimately prove to be its undoing.

And I sense that some people have forgotten what things used to be
like. We need objective assessments of weaknesses not emotionally
driven non specific accusations of hubris.


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geni