[WikiEN-l] Experiment on new pages

Tue Dec 6 10:55:54 UTC 2005

On 12/6/05, BJörn Lindqvist <bjourne at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If we diagnose what went wrong in the Seigenthaler case, this seems like
> > a very opportune place to try a small change of policy.
> >
> > 1. First, the Seigenthaler article was created by an anon.
>
> What does that have to do with anything? Please assume good faith. The
> person who wrote the text might have gotten Seigenthaler mixed up with
> another person who might actually have been suspected of being a
> Soviet spy etc. A registered user could aswell have made the same
> mistake.

I think not allowing unreferenced articles would be a great help too.
I bet the anon didn't provide any source (or they would've discovered
their own mistake if it was one).

Mgm