Seth Ilys wrote:
We're a wiki. Why mess with success?
Interesting definition of success you have.
"A lot of stuff works most of the time" isn't success for a reference.
A metaphorical analogy: Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia, it's a city
with large, unbroken walls on which the grafitti artists are encouraged
to stick to the facts; and then the little old ladies having lunch and
discussing how wonderful the idea is are surprised when the grafitti
artists don't stick to the facts.
There's no way to stop the vandalism if you don't institute some sort of
security measure to preempt it. And since the latter is not a design
feature of wikipedia, vandalism will always be a part of the system, and
this "graffitopedia" will always have a percentage of uselessness noise
on its walls.
And while you're tut-tutting a little vandalism, POV and fallacy are
polluting the majority of the pages.
--Blair