User:Andries/Wikipedia:maintainability

Because the English Wikipedia has more than a million articles keeping the contents maintainable has become a major concern. Some editing principles, tags, and procedures can help. Herunder are some of these listed


 * Merge closely related subjects. One major article is easier to maintain than several closely related articles.
 * Avoid duplication, so you have to make correction only at one place. Some duplication cannot be avoided because ideally each article should be a stand-alone understandable article. When you make a correction then always check what links here and check whether the incorrect information is present in other articles too.
 * Tag good or stable articles as such. Editing of good articles should be scrutinized. A complete revert of an edit that consists of both detoriations and improvements on a good article may be appropriate if it takes too much time to separate the flawed and the good edits. See Good_articles and Stable_versions