Surreptitiousness wrote: > So, how > do you fix the underlying problems? You roll your sleeves up and fix > them. Sofixit. The underlying problem is actually that Wikipedia > suffers from some sort of bias towards pop culture. Now where I sit, the > people who make this complaint are the sort of people who could actually > correct that bias, so I'm always thinking to myself, "sofixit". But > that's me. > > "Sofixit" is a good enough baseline for encouraging participation. It happens that when COI is involved it may not be the best advice (you are advised, I suppose, to remove only defamatory statements about your own biography, and leave things that you'd prefer not to be there or are somewhat inaccurate, participating on the talk page and/or using an OTRS complaint to draw attention). I think it is worthy saying this: people who object only to weaknesses in WP that have a direct personal impact on themselves are not really the ideal recruits: they are natural users of OTRS, not natural encyclopedists. Since many readers of WP fall somewhere between classic Wikipedians, and people having a particular beef where they are in some way vested, "sofixit" still has a definite role to play. I wonder how best to put "sofixit thoughtfully" which is what we really require.
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