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Re:Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown... by skybrian on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:47PM (#33225061)
Inconsistent enforcement certainly seems unfair, but consistency is difficult across millions of articles. Attempting to achieve it may cause other problems due to to volunteers spending time on rules-lawyering rather than moving on to more productive things.

Which is to say, the optimal amount of inconsistency is not zero. How do we know whether they got the balance right?

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Re:Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown... by themitigating on Sunday October 16, 2022 @01:52PM (#33225606)
That amount is difficult to obtain and for everyone to agree on.

More importantly people who bring it up aren't interested in finding out since they can use "inconsistent enforcement " as an argument for the rest of time

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