Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-10950063-20131210013608

This is getting out of control.

It's great when people want to edit it. What's not great is when they change a few things and ignore everything else. Nobody's perfect, I don't expect them to catch everything. But if I can do a quick scan of a page and find a bunch of things that need correcting, then that's not okay. I don't see how that can be classified as a worthwhile edit. I think it's just as bad as editing one article a bunch of times to fix every mistake.

It's also a problem when these speed editors screw something up. It's not all the time, it's not even most of the time, but I'd say it's enough that it's an issue. If someone is making edits so frivolously that they don't see that they're using a word wrong, screwing up proper word forms, etc that's not good editing. And even if it's not all the time, if it's somewhat consistent I think it's a problem. It's counter-productive.

So is changing things that don't need to be changed or screwing with someone's style. I see a ton of the former and quite a bit of the latter. The latter bothers me the most. Unless word choice needs to be changed to fit tense or because the word was misused or for some technical reason, I don't think it needs to be done.

Again, really, the biggest problem is people not taking the time to go through entire stories and get most of the problems. Spellchecking is nice, but it's only half the job. It still leaves a lot of work to do. If the kind of editing that's been going on is really about quality control and not racking up edits, then it shouldn't be too much to ask that quality be the goal and not quantity and speed. 