Hello Srikanth,
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@gmail.com wrote:
Samuel, As a Vandalism reverter on the English Wikipedia, let me inform you that, when a person posts nonsense, EVEN if it is useful, but has a problem, like lacking sources OR, grammatical nonsense. IT still gets reverted, the guy gets a warning, he comes back, revert plus warn again and ultimately, he gets the boot. It happens quite often. I've done it rarely, because the
This is a set of aggressive policies developed over time by a large wiki. In the early days of English WP, when it was the size that Tamil WP is now, this was certainly not the case for well-meaning contributors.
I do not know that the current en:wp policies represent best practices -- the research from the strategy project suggests that they are limiting growth and editor retention -- and in particular smaller wikis may have other needs and priorities.
Of course ta:wp is welcome to adopt any policies that you wish, but I would not advise doing so simply because the English Wikipedia does.
Warmly, SJ