Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote: > That seems to be a description of entropy.
It is. I had thought destruction was the salient concept here, in keeping with our old tradition of creating "-isms" (deletionism, (did I coin that?) inclusionism, etc.) > Of course the older revisions remain in the history and anybody is free to > extract a > snapshot that he considers to be superior to the present one. I just did this at [[matter]], but the issue though is that there's no way to really see what gold exists in previous versions, unless you know what already exists there and understand what erosion has taken place. Matter is an example of a case where 1) everyone knows the common definition and 2) the technical definitions can sometimes contradict, hence 3) rewrites to include these advanced caveats turn the article into WP:NONCE. > But note that entropy is unavoidable on an encyclopedia even if an > article is "complete". [..] the quality of the article, judged according to > that knowledge, degrades if it is not updated. + -SC _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
