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

Tue Oct 18 05:07:04 UTC 2005

I apologize, in my counting of words, I missed [[2004 U.S. election  
voting controversies]], and its 2374 words. The proper word count of  
articles on the 2004 election and its alleged rigging is 58,459.

-Snowspinner

On Oct 17, 2005, at 9:40 PM, 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.
>
> All of them have been VfDed on two occasions a year or so ago when  
> the election actually happened, and survived. In that time, they've  
> only gotten worse, more bloated, and more absurd.
>
> What can we do about these articles, and other cases of what we  
> might call POV by volume - [[Jack Thompson (attorney)]] and  
> [[Westboro Baptist Church]] spring to mind here as well.
>
> My inclination, quite honestly, is to speedy all nine of these  
> election articles and let people start over. Whatever comes now, a  
> year after the event, cannot possibly be as appallingly bad as this.
>
> And don't just shoot back with {{sofixit}} - there's no good fix.  
> It would involve deleting 90% of all 8 of these articles, a change  
> that would be quickly reverted anyway, and, with the way my editing  
> has been going, probably lead to my getting another RfC, because  
> they seem all the rage.
>
> We need some sort of system that's going to untangle this kind of  
> mess - something that doesn't rely on enough people with a whit of  
> common sense watchlisting the articles and being willing to angrily  
> revert the stupid, because, quite frankly, that obviously didn't  
> work here.
>
> Thoughts? Jimbo in particular?
>
> -Snowspinner
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