Den Onsdag, 6. april 2016 14.20 skrev KatolaZ <[email protected]>:

>> So you think public interest is best served by leaving information cleanup 
>> after stupid vandalism to the Poettering squad. I don't.

> What would you suggest as an alternative, that you or me go there and
> do the clean-up instead? 
If we are competent Wikipedia editors for the actual field, surely yes. 
I'm not, but if I were, I would reverse that edit.  But going in as an absolute 
amateur, it's easy to make new errors, in particular when we are not entirely 
neutral on the subject :-)  Competence here is about (at least) subject, 
balance (/professionalism)  and style.

The administrators there usually have way more than enough to do with 
vandalism, edit wars etc. So generally, constructive help contributes to making 
it more of a self-cleaning thing and imporves quality. But they tend to be on 
guard against people "cleaning up" articles about themselves, their friends, 
employee, party etc. AFAIK that is generally considered a bad idea.
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