[Wikipedia-l] Trigger Words

Fred Bauder fredbaud at ctelco.net
Fri Aug 9 02:57:45 UTC 2002


At 04:43 AM 8/9/02 +0200, Erik wrote:
>Hi,
>
>it occurred to me that certain words may well be used as search patterns to
>find low quality and non-NPOV articles. For example, there is hardly any
>valid encyclopedic use for the word "ironically" -- I have tried to go
through
>the articles that contain it and fix them one by one, but there are too
many of
>them.  Other emotional words such as "bizarre", and vulgar ones, such as
>"stupid" and "crap", may also be useful for finding articles that need to be
>edited.
>
>How about a page that lists such "trigger words" for others to search for
>them and fix the articles that contain them? Where should such a page be put?

Tried that on "stupid" and found [[cow tipping]]. Fascinating...

Fred Bauder




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