On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Sometimes I don't understand people. Carcharoth goes to the trouble of
finding his birth date, learning he received the Brazilian Order of Merit,
and lists out some copy errors, but
I'm afraid I have to disagree with David Goodman's final paragraph
calling for an end to minor improvements to articles. I have done many
thousands of such minor edits in my time, tasks such as going through
all the articles with the word preformed and changing almost all to
performed. That has
Yes, trying to force people to do big edits is a bad idea.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:19 AM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm afraid I have to disagree with David Goodman's final paragraph
calling for an end to minor improvements to articles. I have done many
You might also be interested in the Open Knowledge Foundation's work
in this area:
http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/21/datagovuk-goes-public-and-its-using-ckan/
More background:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-egov-ig/2010Jan/0040.html
WM-UK are also helping out with our annual Open
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:45 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Running a mass deletion does have the unfortunate effect
that there's no time for anyone to scramble for sources, which folks
will do at least
At 11:06 AM 1/28/2010, Samuel Klein wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Ryan Delaney ryan.dela...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:45 PM, phoebe ayers
phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Running a mass deletion does have the unfortunate effect
that there's no time for anyone to
Hi all,
In case you haven't heard already, Britain Loves Wikipedia, a free
photography scavenger hunt following on from Wiki Loves Art et al.,
will be taking place in 21 museums and archives across the UK
throughout February, and is launching on Sunday at the Victoria and
Albert Museum!
I would be uncomfortable with about blanking articles, if it couldnt
do better in telling whether or not something is referenced than the
last week or so of deletion nomination has done.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Abd
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:43 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
I would be uncomfortable with about blanking articles, if it couldnt
do better in telling whether or not something is referenced than the
last week or so of deletion nomination has done.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
On 29 January 2010 01:35, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
(Incidentally, a fair number of the unsourced BLPs are in fact
copyvios, and when I see that, I speedy deleted on that ground, unless
it seems important enough to rewrite. )
Take care there - I increasingly see website bios
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