On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:20 AM, The Cunctator <cuncta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> At the same time, > > *Always leave something undone. > **Give the author a chance.* > *Build the web.* > *Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point.* > > and > > *If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular > editing, > rather than deletion.* > > These maxims were very good in the formative stages of our project. You and other early editors were right (maybe even prophetic) to adopt them. The fledgling project needed hands, eyeballs, and content. By zealously keeping and expanding content--even shoddy content--we grew dramatically. But this debate has come to a boil because we've been too slow in realizing that the balance must change because conditions have changed. We are no longer a small project, but one that places in the top three google search results for almost any topic in our encyclopedia. We have succeeded because of our formative policies, and with our success comes responsibility. In an era when any living subject can have their life harmed by a poorly vetted biography, we should strike a new balance. We should not bite off more than we can chew. In this area, we ought to weed out BLPs that we can no longer maintain at appropriately high standatds. As a happy consequence of this process, many notable biographies will be improved. I hope that this improvement and re-examination process is continual. In this way, we will effectively shoulder the responsibility we have for maintaining one of the top ten sites on the internet. Cool Hand Luke _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
