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Potential problems seen by DGG

obstacles

The advantages are obvious, so I'll mention a few problems ahead.

  1. Some of the articles being worked with a controversial, and involve dozens of daily edits, many of them disruptive. If there is a text unit in common in two articles, who gets to change it? To fit in with one article's other changes it may need to be modified one way, and this may not suit the other article. But otherwise they will diverge and no longer be modular. Transclusion only works with agreed-upon text, and requires disciplined and organized editing.
  2. Organized and orderly editing is entirely foreign to WP. There are always a few people who try to do it for a few months, until they get sufficiently disgusted to leave, or sometimes to become an administrator and worry about other people's projects. If WP were to change, we might be able to keep such people, which would certainly be a good thing. But if WP worked that way many of the horde of anarchic uneducated would leave, and they are what gives the project its life.
  3. Some of the articles are so controversial, that it seems desirable to keep them away from others. The D. article is very good in many respects, and the E. article has major problems keeping its integrity and seems to have required a constant running fight since WP started, Having worked a little on both, I would like to keep as much of a firewall between them as possible.

solutions

  1. This is no different to current POV problems. Discussion and consensus. Samsara (talk • contribs) 01:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What does

  1. See Wikipedia:Expert retention and similar pages. Not sure about the anarchic uneducated being particular useful, assuming that this definition excludes the self-educated and willing-to-learn. Not sure what difference they make to this project. Samsara (talk • contribs) 01:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. The Darwin and Evolution articles are not likely to share summary sections as far as I can tell. Samsara (talk • contribs) 01:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article size

What are the intentions of this project with respect to Wikipedia:Article size? --Sadi Carnot 02:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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