Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2012-08-27/Featured content


 * Quote: "A general rule of thumb is that if an Arbcom case has been named after the article, you want to keep your distance". This isn't ideal for Wikipedia, but it's a way to live on Wikipedia. You don't want to lose your time, but you want to built something nice with your time instead. Seniors with lil' free time don't accept well kid's free time vandalism wasting their voluntary effort. Maybe that's why German Wikipedia accepts pending changes and English Wikipedia with editors under 25 years old don't accept it. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 14:31, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Well put. This is a serious problem, good editors being turned away from editing contentious articles. I still don't get why Pending Changes isn't used on English Wikipedia. --Chriswaterguy talk 15:01, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If you don't get it, you haven't read the debates. Even if you disagree, to pretend that there aren't valid, well explained viewpoints on the other side is disingenuous. You could learn a bit about neutrality from the interview above.  S ven M anguard   Wha?  14:31, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm just thinking loudly as these facts aren't ideal, these problems might get bigger:
 * Interesting articles get many editors. Many editors generate controversies that might end up in a Arbcom.
 * I got the impression that the german speaking people on de.wikipedia are on average older than the english speaking people on en.wikipedia.
 * I got the impression that german speaking public schools might be better than english speaking public schools.
 * The economic crisis might get worse, changing the number of people online. This might change the proportion of vandals online to editors online.
 * All this might be improved after some thought, hopefully. Cheers --Chris.urs-o (talk) 15:16, 3 September 2012 (UTC)