[Foundation-l] Essay

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Correcting articles which shouldn't be there in the first place is probably
a waste of time, but searching for grammatical and technical errors is a
pretty good way to find such articles. I often do it.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 20:45, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the opposite end of the scale from FA, I often look at links from
> articles being proposed for deletion by various processes, and  daily
> I  encounter equally questionable non-notable subjects or very
> promotional articles, where sometime dozens of   people have made typo
> or style corrections, or added categories and internal links, but none
> of them have ever challenged or even tagged the fundamental problems
> with the article. Is this sort of meticulous detail correction of what
> should not be in Wikipedia in the first place a worthwhile activity?
>
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Bod Notbod <bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "The primary function of the Wikipedias is to educate in the sciences,
> > philosophy, technology and all that truly useful stuff. Nevertheless
> > there's an argument for a Featured Article on South Park because it
> > brings in new blood. Such an article can pique the interest of teens
> > and twenties and get them involved. Discuss."
> >
> > My reply would be:
> >
> > There's a difficulty in that you get trapped. At the moment, the task
> > I've set myself is to review Featured Article candidates. You might
> > set yourself a task and find yourself dealing with stuff that,
> > frankly, isn't very educational. I proofread an article on a Bob Dylan
> > album because it came up for review. But should I really be
> > proofreading articles on biology, chemistry and physics?
> >
> > I don't have expertise in those areas but I may at least change an
> > "its" to an "it's" or vice versa.
> >
> > I think at the heart of the question is; do you find yourself sticking
> > to a routine without questioning the relative value of what you're
> > doing? Is fighting vandalism on a South Park article equal to fighting
> > vandalism on science? We all only have a certain number of hours in
> > the day.
> >
> > User:Bodnotbod
> >
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Amir Elisha Aharoni

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