[WikiEN-l] Can sweet reason still work on en:wp? Occasionally.

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/10/22 Surreptitiousness <surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com>:
> stevertigo wrote:
>> So the question is, how do we aggregate and sort arguments such that
>> we can apply a meta process for quickly discerning good, valid,
>> arguments, from those that aren't? Other than "IAR" that is?
>>
>>
> Didn't we used to reformat discussions? Maybe we need to re-integrate
> that into our tool-box.

You mean refactoring? Refactoring an ongoing discussion is usually
very controversial and not worth the drama. Refactoring a closed
discussion might make a more useful archive, particularly I'm not sure
archives get read enough to be worth the effort.