Re: [WikiEN-l] In defence of the minor edit

2010-01-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:51 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 January 2010 01:35, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: (Incidentally, a fair number of the unsourced BLPs are in fact copyvios, and when I see that, I speedy deleted on that ground, unless it seems important

Re: [WikiEN-l] In defence of the minor edit

2010-01-29 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: But yeah, lots of stubby BLPs are bios... That should have read copyvios. Carcharoth ___ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this

[WikiEN-l] In defence of the minor edit

2010-01-28 Thread WereSpielChequers
I'm afraid I have to disagree with David Goodman's final paragraph calling for an end to minor improvements to articles. I have done many thousands of such minor edits in my time, tasks such as going through all the articles with the word preformed and changing almost all to performed. That has

Re: [WikiEN-l] In defence of the minor edit

2010-01-28 Thread The Cunctator
Yes, trying to force people to do big edits is a bad idea. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:19 AM, WereSpielChequers werespielchequ...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm afraid I have to disagree with David Goodman's final paragraph calling for an end to minor improvements to articles. I have done many

Re: [WikiEN-l] In defence of the minor edit

2010-01-28 Thread David Gerard
On 29 January 2010 01:35, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote: (Incidentally, a fair number of the unsourced BLPs are in fact copyvios, and when I see that, I speedy deleted on that ground, unless it seems important enough to rewrite. ) Take care there - I increasingly see website bios