[WikiEN-l] Destructionism

[David Gerard]

On 7 August 2010 01:45, William Beutler <williambeutler at gmail.com> wrote:

> As a concept, it bears thinking about. I'm not necessarily saying there
> should be a hold placed on articles that have attained those statuses... OK,
> maybe I am. Limit editing to autoconfirmed editors? Obviously when FAs reach
> the front page, unhelpful editing pretty much always follows. I don't see it
> as a terrible thing that editing be slowed down on those articles, for
> instance. It took a lot of considered work to get there. Maybe it should
> take some consideration to change them.


I strongly disagree. Exposing them to the sort of casual editing they
get being on the front page is the final stage of content review.

These are not precious, polished jewels. They are working pieces of
informational text. They need regular shaking up. Content is more
important than polish. Moves to preserve polish over content are
fundamentally wrong.


- d.