[WikiEN-l] Next experiment: switch off AFD for a month. (was Guardian in defense of Wikipedia)

Tue Dec 13 17:44:50 UTC 2005

On 12/13/05, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> My latest proposal suggested that articles were merely moved to the
> user namespace, 24 hours after creation, and only after the user was
> notified and a good faith effort to locate a source had failed.

The problem with that is that it removes articles that need work from
the eyes of the editors and readers who might be able to fix the
problem.  Better to mark it as unreliable than make it invisible.

-Matt