On 17/05/2012 3:49 a.m., Gwern Branwen wrote:
Indeed. Why *are* the skeptical geeks now on Reddit and not Wikipedia?
I take (took?) a hard line on keeping articles when doing new page
patrol, especially for an unreferenced article from a new contributor.
WP is under continual attack from spammers, scammer, vandals,
mischievous students, tests of WP's systems by journalists and academics
etc. Given all this, and the fact that it is time consuming to chase up
the veracity of the article contents WP needs to change. (Unfortunately
instigating change on WP is next to impossible.) The current deletion
processes are way out of date for what WP now is. Also, the onus should
be on an editor to supply refs (unless it is not contentious) rather
than the overworked regular editors to chase them up.
Alan Liefting
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