Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Matthew Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote: What a lot of churn. So the overall rate was merely +1 FA, +4 FL (and also 3 topics and three images). Is it always this bad? My long-time observation is that the people who obsess about FA over the long term want to

Re: [WikiEN-l] admins blocking but refusing to justify which policy orguideline applies

2009-07-13 Thread Charles Matthews
R E Broadley wrote: The only link I've been given so far is the [[Wikipedia:Disruptive editing]] link. Have you seen any others, because I have certainly not. I think you can reasonably ask the ArbCom about this. Disruptive editing is only a behavioural guideline: it mentions This

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Carcharoth
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Steve Bennettstevag...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-06/Features_and_admins I couldn't help but notice: * Five articles were promoted to featured status this week * Four articles were delisted this week. *

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Sage Ross
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:26 AM, Carcharothcarcharot...@googlemail.com wrote: There are long-term stats somewhere, and they could be updated if you asked. I suggest identifying which of the featured areas you want to see long-term stats for, and asking at the relevant talk pages. An

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/13 Matthew Brown mor...@gmail.com: My long-time observation is that the people who obsess about FA over the long term want to keep the number of articles with that status approximately constant by making the standards more and more difficult to meet. Many have stated this directly on

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Andrew Turvey
- Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 13 July, 2009 03:29:06 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Anthony Simone
Andrew Turvey wrote: - Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: From: Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, 13 July, 2009 03:29:06 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote: I often wondered - what's the point of delisting? Surely if a previous version of an article was good enough to be Featured, if the current version isn't, you should just restore the one that was? Or am I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Matthew Brownmor...@gmail.com wrote: My long-time observation is that the people who obsess about FA over the long term want to keep the number of articles with that status approximately constant by making the standards more and more difficult to meet. Yeah,

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:. Here's a great example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Face_of_a_Southern_Yellowjacket_Queen What an incredible image. This is a *wasp*, and we have great detail of the *hairs* on

Re: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn

2009-07-13 Thread geni
2009/7/14 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:. Here's a great example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Face_of_a_Southern_Yellowjacket_Queen What an incredible image. This is a *wasp*, and we

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin churn?

2009-07-13 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/7/14 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com: - Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: My long-time observation is that the people who obsess about FA over the long term want to keep the number of articles with that status approximately constant by making the standards more