Article ownership Re: avoiding forks (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] public service ads in Wikipedia?)

Stirling Newberry stirling.newberry at xigenics.net
Wed Feb 16 20:50:24 UTC 2005


On Feb 16, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Delirium wrote:

> Stirling Newberry wrote:
>
>> I feel the more "automatic" we make the process of "raising a red 
>> flag" on an article, the more it will be done rather than edit 
>> warring it out.
>
> Something like this would help a great deal, I think.  I've been in a 
> few disputes where I was pretty certain that if the wider community 
> was aware of the dispute, my position was pretty obviously the way to 
> go, but the problem was that I was fighting with the very small group 
> of people who cared about the page, who had very particular views.  A 
> common way to resolve this in the past has been emailing wikien-l (or 
> the appropriate language list) asking people to take a look at the 
> article, but as Wikipedia gets bigger this method doesn't scale very 
> well, and also tends to result in a lot of content discussion on the 
> list that should really be on the talk pages.
>
> -Mark
>

That list is, in fact, part of the problem.




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