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Neither. Both sound like recipes for disaster, and impossible to administer. In all seriousness, it's taken close to a decade for Wikipedia to develop policies, guidelines, enforcements and practices to deal with abuses and get decent information into articles about people.

Anyone who thinks it's easy to allow anyone to edit articles about people hasn't tried to do it before, or are just plum crazy!



You've only further encouraged me. I'll start work on it this weekend.


Best of luck - the greatest inventions were created by those with blind optimism :-) interestingly, it's also how they started Wikipedia...




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