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altmanaltmanyesterday at 4:03 AM1 replyview on HN

> More like policies evolve and older articles are grandfathered in by the fact that they aren't edited and people aren't going back and reviewing old articles that don't meet the newer standards.

Seems like Wikipedia sucks at enforcing its policy from what I am reading?


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Gander5739yesterday at 5:47 PM

The problem is there's no monolithic "Wikipedia". If no one nominates the old articles for deletion, they don't get deleted.