[Wikipedia-l] comment on wikipedia

Fri Jan 30 16:30:08 UTC 2004

Optim <optim81 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Do you think it's true? 

No.  I've seen no evidence of this process.

> and how can we answer this argument?

Ask him why an average person would wish to ruin a good article?
And why the community would then leave those detrimental changes unreverted.

Furthermore, ask them to point out a selection of good articles that was
edited to averageness by the intervention of the mediocre.  
Theories that don't have confirming instances may cheerfully be disregarded. 
-- 
Gareth Owen
"The best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity"
                  --  W. B. Yeats forsees the standard of debate on wikipedia-l