[Wikipedia-l] Easton's Bible Dictionary

Michael R. Irwin mri_icboise at surfbest.net
Fri Aug 9 23:15:54 UTC 2002


"Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Toby Bartels wrote:
> 
> > This means that I'm coming out against Neil's plan entirely.
> > As I mentioned under the last heading, his intentions were good,
> > but the plan itself, not just the execution, was IMO flawed.
> > If we want to use the EBD to write Biblically themed articles,
> > then that's great, and I don't expect Neil to do it all himself,
> > but we should set up a Bible article writing group to do it,
> > with human editing for each entry before it appears (in the [[:]] namespace).
> 
> I agree. The automatic committing of articles from out dated works should stop.
> 

I also found Toby's reasoning persuasive in the context of our
current approach to content management.   I would have no problem with
material automatically loading into a draft area for random users
or Wikipedians to review and edit at their leisure.

regards, mirwin



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