[Wikipedia-l] Semi-protection

Wed Nov 15 02:04:59 UTC 2006

On 11/14/06, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And agreed again.   To expand on GMaxwell's comment about limiting
> visibility of newbie edits: we should be as liberal as possible in
> taking in new text and information from contributors, and as careful
> as possible in how we display it.  Each view should very clearly
> identify, filtered up to the first screen of the main display, the
> history, community trust, level of discussion and monitoring, and
> referencing put into an article (especially its last dozen edits).
>
> SJ

Or in other words, we should follow that classic RFC saying (Postel's
Prescription): " Be generous in what you accept,  rigorous in what you
emit"?  Sounds good to me.

--Gwern