[WikiEN-l] Online Newspapers Considering Subscription Model

[Bod Notbod]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:15 AM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> At times what I've done is say "would you be willing to quote the exact
> passage with quotation marks?"  Sometimes that works if I'm skeptical
> that they really paraphrased it accurately, and if they are willing to
> do that, but I wouldn't remove it just because I couldn't verify it.
> And I wouldn't remove it just because they said they weren't willing to
> do that, or didn't have access to the item any longer.

It's not a great problem I've found patrolling Recent Changes.

I see a lot of people changing numeric things like sports player's
stats. I loathe sport. So when someone changes an 8 to a 9 I think....
"aaargh". But [[WP:Huggle]] allows you to retrieve the contributions
and you often find the previous three contribs are:

"Suck my cock!"

"Is Yo Mama!!!"

and

"This stinks ass!!!"

So I change the 9 back to an 8 and leave in the edit summary "bad
faith user making numeric edit."

Sorry, I'm getting off the point: we're talking about /referenced
vandalism/... hopefully we don't get too much of that. I fear the
really sneaky guy, though. Most anons are very transparent and easy to
deal with.