[WikiEN-l] So what do we do about this?

Tue Oct 18 02:10:26 UTC 2005

Snowspinner wrote:

> [[2004 U.S. presidential election controversy and irregularities]]  
> and its 8 sub-articles, at present, take up 56085 words. This is five  
> times as much as the whole of our coverage on Immanuel Kant.
>
> The articles are, needless to say, utter crap - full of conspiracy  
> theory rantings and POV, they read like the collected waste products  
> of a month of blogging, which is, not coincidentally, exactly what  
> they are.

The best solution I've been able to come up with is to just slap NPOV 
and factual-dispute tags on these sorts of things, nearly indefinitely 
(or at least until such unlikely time as they don't deserve them).  Then 
we might have crappy articles in the encyclopedia, but at least we warn 
our readers right up front about it.

-Mark