On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 2009/3/2 Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org>: > >> Flagged Revs is an excellent way of dealing with vandalism to BLPs, > >> technical solutions to more subtle problems are a little trickier. > >> Flagged Revs could be used with addition levels - a "free of > >> vandalism" level and a "well balanced, fact-checked and free of > >> anything remotely libellous" level. Two separate levels are necessary > >> since the 2nd takes far too long to be a practical vandal fighting > >> tool - I'm not sure which level would be shown by default to whom, > >> that needs to be worked out. > >> > > > > Another good idea, but how would an article be accepted as "well > balanced"? > > You just can't write about a topic which has any level of controversy and > > come up with an article which everyone will agree is "well balanced". No > > matter what you write, someone is going to have a problem with it, so > > marking an article as "well balanced" is more likely to increase the > > complaints rather than reduce them. I think Citizendium's "approved > > articles" is about the best you can do in this type of situation, and > their > > articles certainly aren't "well balanced". > > Of course, the terms need to be well defined, I was being > intentionally vague about that part because it requires significant > discussion and debate that I don't think we want to get into now. > Citizendium's "approved articles" are the equivalent of (not exactly > the same as, though) our "featured articles" - we don't want to > require all BLPs to be featured, that would never work! > Citizendium's "approved articles" is similar in goal to Wikipedia's "featured articles", but the process is very very different. If adopted by Wikipedia (and I highly doubt it would be), it would be *much* more scalable than the current "featured articles" system. That said, I didn't think your proposal was to "require all BLPs to be [flagged as well balanced]". As for your vagueness, well, I think the implementation is the key to flagged revisions. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
