gwern comments on Low-hanging fruit: improving wikipedia entries - Less Wrong

36 Post author: LanceSBush 23 July 2013 01:14PM

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Comment author: gwern 25 July 2013 09:19:00PM 5 points [-]

Note that those are also highly delineated and uncontroversial topics, which means that they can pass FAs easily. FA isn't so much about 'is this a great article?' but 'can we find any excuse to not make this an FA?'; hence, crabbed uninteresting topics. Hurricanes aren't very controversial.

Comment author: Rukifellth 25 July 2013 10:07:25PM 1 point [-]

So articles on those subjects aren't especially good?

Comment author: gwern 25 July 2013 10:55:33PM 7 points [-]

They're good in a very stereotypical, narrow, uncontroversial, lowest-common-denominator sort of way.