[WikiEN-l] Rating the English wikipedia

[Carcharoth]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:

> I therefore award the Wikipedia class C:

I award it an F minus, based on using it to do some research today on
the topic of the Nebra sky disc (i.e. as a starting point to looking
elsewhere, but I was hoping that the Wikipedia article would be a good
starting point):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disk

Different bits of text within the article contradict each other, there
is a struck-out bit (using <del></del> tags) down in the references
section, and when you look in the article history, you find lots of
recent changes in January 2011. From what I can tell, someone in
January 2011 has made lots of changes.

These are the changes since 4 December 2010:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nebra_sky_disk&diff=413679667&oldid=400465808

Some of the removal edits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nebra_sky_disk&diff=prev&oldid=410561429
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nebra_sky_disk&diff=410525404&oldid=409950734
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nebra_sky_disk&diff=411978495&oldid=411480834
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nebra_sky_disk&diff=413984194&oldid=413679667

Essentially, the article is a mess, so I gave up and went elsewhere to
look for information on this object.

And back on Wikipedia, I've asked some other editors to have a look at
the article.

I'm tempted to ask whether the "system" worked here or not. I
understand that there is always a chance that you come across an
article in a poor state during editing, but quite why there wasn't a
proper reaction here, I don't know.

Carcharoth