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by chiph
1421 days ago
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From what I've seen, the key to keeping pages up on Wikipedia is to have a lot of verifiable references & citations. If you do this like you're writing a college paper, rogue editors have much less power. Challenges to their reverts & deletions are also more likely to succeed. A good example of this is the article for the unloved Honda Ridgeline pickup. Jalopnik did an article about how the Wikipedia page for it is astonishingly detailed and (exhaustively) referenced. https://jalopnik.com/the-story-behind-the-honda-ridgelines-w... |
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The problem is that this takes SO MUCH time and energy. Most give up.
Taking time out of your day to voluntarily improve a free resource is already energy intensive without also expending that energy battling with zealots.
Edit: to be clear, I'm not saying providing proper references takes too much time, I'm saying that having to fight with people to be permitted to keep content while building references takes much more energy again.