On 12/09/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 9/12/06, daniwo59(a)aol.com <daniwo59(a)aol.com>
wrote:
> 1. The field "Requests" on "Recent
Changes" be changed to "Requested feature
> articles." Instead of asking people to create brand new article, the focus
> should be on improving existing articles.
Why? Is there any reason to believe that improving a
crappy article
into a featured article is better than creating a featured article
from scratch? Maybe most crappy articles are still crappy because
they're not a very useful topic in the first place.
This is answered in Danny's original message, which I will therefore
assume you didn't read before hitting 'reply'.
There's nothing wrong with creating brand new
articles, as long as
you're creating *good* brand new articles. To that end I think we
should insist that all new articles are sourced. After a while that
should be extended - all major additions to old articles must be
sourced. Only then, once we've stopped the addition of new unsourced
additions, can we truly start to tackle the old unsourced information.
I think what will happen is that the volunteers will do whatever the
heck they feel like.
- d.