[WikiEN-l] Article quality deterioration (was: a valid criticism)

Mon Oct 10 16:50:34 UTC 2005

uninvited at nerstrand.net wrote:
> The problem is that people come along and make incremental changes each
> of which, taken alone, is unremarkable -- neither helpful nor
> especially detrimental to the article.  In aggregate, such changes
> destroy the organization of the article and compromise any stylistic
> unity that may be present.
>   

Simple technical solution: Each article gets a special counter. After X 
days, or X edits, or not-minor edits, or X bytes changed, or some 
combination thereof, the article gets added to a special "review" list. 
This is for people who like to specialize is style/flow/structure/etc of 
articles. These can then be reformatted/reworded. Calling it "review" 
might help to suppress edit wars; after all, this is not because of a 
special edit, but because some criteria say "this might need 
restructuring". Also, it is not to remove information, rather to 
rearrange it into readable form.

Magnus