On 7 August 2010 01:25, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Destructionism: The tendency for Wikipedia articles which have reached > an advanced degree of completeness and encyclopedic value to be edited > in increasingly destructive ways, simply because perfection has > already been achieved or nearly achieved, yet articles remain open to > editing.
You have an erroneous assumption: that there is perfection or that even a high quality article says all that anyone would ever want to know on the topic. It tends to proceed in a cycle. Well-written, someone adds more stuff they think is missing, someone polishes the writing once more, someone adds more stuff. Those who did the polishing get *really annoyed* at the people adding more *stuff*, but it probably benefits the reader. People come to Wikipedia for its breadth of coverage, not its polished writing. Indeed, some articles decay into mush. I didn't say polishing was easy - it isn't, which is why the people who do it get so resentful. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
