BoyWiki:Agora/8 May 2015

Agora/8 May 2015

Dumping copypasted blocks of text into an article

Lately we're seeing a trend in which users dump unformatted blocks of text from other sources into articles. Usually it happens when someone says, "Okay, this article is shit, so let me copy and paste this stuff above everything else, and leave it to someone else to format it properly and integrate it with the other content in the article, if they want to." Maybe this does make the article more informative, but it also puts the article into a situation of needing cleanup.

So one could say that it's both progress and a regression. It's a regression in that now the number of articles in need of cleanup has increased. On Wikipedia, such changes would likely be reverted on sight. Would it be a better practice for people to dump this kind of research into the talk page rather than into the article itself, if they're not ready to alter the content to come even close to meeting BoyWiki's style guidelines? Lysander (talk) 15:59, 8 May 2015 (UTC)