[WikiEN-l] Re: The heart of the deletion problem

Mon Dec 12 01:51:26 UTC 2005

Michael Snow wrote:

> Stable versions that feed into development versions, with the latter 
> clearly identified as such (in David Gerard's words, 1995-style yellow 
> and black "Under Construction" GIFs), would do quite a bit to defuse 
> these problems, I think. In particular, I don't think the urge to 
> delete would be nearly as strong, and the concern about harm to 
> Wikipedia's image from be minimized. The time to provide stable 
> versions has come.

Copyediting myself: "The concern about harm to Wikipedia's image from 
bad articles would be minimized."

--Michael Snow