Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2007-02-26/Fuzzy suit
What 'random polling of administrators'? -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 23:36, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
- I polled a random sample of 20 administrators, getting back responses from a little more than half. I felt that it would be a good way to get the community's general opinion on this issue, since nothing was really talked about anywhere. I believe the setup resulted in unbiased results, except for the fact that not all responded, and only admins were contacted (an SRS of the millions of user accounts would have been innappropriate and anything short of an SRS would have resulted in bias). └Jared┘┌talk┐ 00:59, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you, I think it should be mentioned here for the future.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 04:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Oversight?
[edit]I don't believe that the offending edits were removed via the oversight function — I think they were just deleted. Any admin can see the libelous edit here. (The IP listed at this edit is the one listed in the lawsuit.) If the oversight function had been used, only developers would be able to see the deleted edit. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 08:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
- Yes, this is true. (I personally thought this was oversight, but I see the difference now.) Can someone from Signpost correct this? -- Zanimum 15:32, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
- The Signpost is still a wiki, isn't it? I figure anyone can fix it, so I did. :^) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 19:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Isn't it obvious what we need to do
[edit]WHY DO WE HAVE SO MANY BIOGRAPHIES??
If you publish a book that sold more than 5,000 copies you are notable enough to stay in the encyclopedia. This seems to be firm policy since the days of VFD. The community needs to realize that ppl with a few published books will unlikely have much sourced information on them. If there aren't sources how can we possibly verify what is put into the biography? We can't. We need to define notable ppl. We need to link sources to notability. We need to make that category far more exclusive.