Comments on: Wikipedia to require new biography edits to be approved first http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/08/25/wikipedia-to-require-new-biography-edits-to-be-approved-first/ A conversation. Fri, 25 May 2012 00:29:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: paulbradshaw http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/08/25/wikipedia-to-require-new-biography-edits-to-be-approved-first/#comment-11224 paulbradshaw Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:17:17 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3337#comment-11224 Agreed - I've made 2 contributions to Wikipedia - one an entire new entry on 'Wiki journalism' which made it; the other on Madchester band New FADs - which was deleted on the grounds that they were not significant enough (I'd actually added the entry because another entry listing Madchcester bands included them but had no internal link). Annoyingly at a later date an entry on New FADs was accepted - what had changed in the meantime? I can only assume a different editor made a different decision. Agreed – I’ve made 2 contributions to Wikipedia – one an entire new entry on ‘Wiki journalism’ which made it; the other on Madchester band New FADs – which was deleted on the grounds that they were not significant enough (I’d actually added the entry because another entry listing Madchcester bands included them but had no internal link).
Annoyingly at a later date an entry on New FADs was accepted – what had changed in the meantime? I can only assume a different editor made a different decision.

]]> By: Anna Haynes http://onlinejournalismblog.com/2009/08/25/wikipedia-to-require-new-biography-edits-to-be-approved-first/#comment-11223 Anna Haynes Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:28:44 +0000 http://onlinejournalismblog.com/?p=3337#comment-11223 > "if a new contributor doesn’t see their edit go live immediately, how does that affect their involvement? " There are worse things. Of the edits I've made to Wikipedia - made in good faith - I think _all_ of them have been deleted. So my involvement's going elsewhere. (One was to a bio, & was a compendium of links to some of the individual's best writing; one was itself a bio, but wasn't to a public figure deemed of sufficient importance; and the most recent edit involved adding two people - who I myself had gotten confused - to a disambiguation page.) > “if a new contributor doesn’t see their edit go live immediately, how does that affect their involvement? ”

There are worse things. Of the edits I’ve made to Wikipedia – made in good faith – I think _all_ of them have been deleted. So my involvement’s going elsewhere.

(One was to a bio, & was a compendium of links to some of the individual’s best writing; one was itself a bio, but wasn’t to a public figure deemed of sufficient importance; and the most recent edit involved adding two people – who I myself had gotten confused – to a disambiguation page.)

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