[WikiEN-l] Proposal: Article Improvement Weeks! (was Turn off article creation AND deletion.)

Tue Dec 13 04:06:36 UTC 2005

On 12/12/05, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone, I hope, recognizes that turning off article creation for a
> week would eliminate one of Wikipedia's well-recognized remarkable
> successes; that is, responding quickly and informatively to breaking
> news of import, from September 11 to the Indonesian tsunami to Nobel
> Prize winners.

This could be great for Wikinews, which is where breaking news of
import should go nowadays anyway (especially if Wikipedia is going to
just repeat false information without attribution, like it did in the
[[Jean Charles de Menezes]] article)..

Anthony