On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > First shouldn't we guess as to what percentage of the links were > actually good in the first place?
I must say, I didn't expect to see someone rationalizing the results even *before* they happened. But no, you don't need to guess: you edit Wikipedia, you already know what external links usually look like, and how many are bad on average. (From actually doing the deletions, my own appraisal is that <10% were at all questionable, and I felt pretty bad deleting most of them.) If you don't, you can go click on Special:Random 10 times and ask yourself, 'would I delete the last link in the External links section?' If you think 2 links are rotten, then perhaps you should be predicting that - since everything is well, and any result is acceptable, and the status quo is perfect - only 80% of the edits will be reverted. I look forward to your percentages. -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
