[WikiEN-l] New York Times article

Fri Jun 23 07:23:54 UTC 2006

On 6/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
> The missing piece of data is: what proportion of anonymous editors are
> good contributors?  If it's very small, then it's a non-issue.

I have a theory that for any change made by an anon editor:

- if it's a deletion, it's probably vandalism
- if it's the addition of more than a sentence, it will probably be
unsourced and get reverted
- if it's only a net change of plus or minus 5 characters, it's
probably a useful copy-edit

Anon make a lot of typo corrections, but are rarely bold enough to fix
major problems in articles.

Steve