Well... that does happen. It's basically WP:OWNership. I find that ownership usually, but not always, stops an article reaching its maximum quality and/or coverage.
But ownership doesn't seem to dominate the wikipedia. And sometimes if the owner really is really good then the article can end up just fine. On 16/02/2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <[email protected]> wrote: > Carl Beckhorn wrote: >> Regardless of the history, Sanger does have a viewpoint that would be >> worth reading even if the author were anonymous. In particular, the >> following claim is quite accurate to my experience: >> >> Over the long term, the quality of a given Wikipedia article will do a >> random walk around the highest level of quality permitted by the most >> persistent and aggressive people who follow an article. >> > > It is a nice use of rhetoric, but accurate? NOWAI! > > Let me paraphrase it in a way that will make the logical flaws > more apparent. > > In that sentence there are buried assumptions as follows: > > 1. There are people on wikipedia who will not permit > quality. > > 2. People who won't permit quality are aggressive. > > 3. There is a clear unambiguous metric for quality. > > 4. Aggressive people who won't permit quality will > follow an article. > > 5. Over the long term, the dynamics of wikipedias > practices will not prevent editors who will not > allow quality on wikipedia from dragging it down > to the level that they aggressively and persistently > insist on bringing it down to. There are no working > heuristics to allow it to transcend that attractor. > > *Understanding* the logical flaws of those 5 statements > is left to the student. > > > Yours, > > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -Ian Woollard We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly imperfect world would be much better. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
