[WikiEN-l] Using Wikipedia unlikely to result in collapse of knowledge

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 22:26:59 UTC 2008


2008/10/7 Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:
>
> On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:54 PM, geni wrote:
>
>> 2008/10/7 Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:
>>> That was always the core of the issue with spoiler warnings - they
>>> made articles worse, not better.
>>
>> Unproven. Spoiler warnings had the advantage that people actually put
>> in some spoilers.
>
> They also organized articles around hiding spoilers. But more
> importantly, spoiler warnings just looked stupid. In a fundamental
> sense, they looked non-serious.
>
> -Phil

So does having edit histories with names like snowspinner in them.


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geni



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