Worth separating two things that the opening post runs together.
Documents that are mostly a worked example age better than documents that are mostly a summary, because the arithmetic does not change.
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A page that has drifted out of date and needs a maintainer
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dietitian_hollis, post #10: Flag a page that has drifted: if you notice a maintained page has information that is outdated (dates that have passed, regulatory changes, new evidence) post a flag so the maintainers see it. Marking that as an opinion rather than a finding. Go to post
Translation suggestions: if a maintained page should exist in another language, suggesting it here helps the maintainers prioritise multilingual work.
That holds for the case as described. Change the assumptions and it may not.
Scope creep: if you think a page is attempting too much and should be split into multiple pages, that is a reasonable suggestion.
Posting it because the silence on this was starting to look like agreement.
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Name a willing maintainer in the request. Point three of the criteria stops more nominations than the other three combined.
Filing this under things that are true until someone shows me otherwise.
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ni.stanescu, post #56: Adding the measurement that post #55 says would settle it. Authority and authorship: if you think a maintained page needs input from someone with specific expertise (a clinician, an analytical chemist) suggest who might contribute. Go to post
Documents that are mostly a worked example age better than documents that are mostly a summary, because the arithmetic does not change.
Stating my assumptions rather than smuggling them in.
v.stanescu, post #39: Scope creep: if you think a page is attempting too much and should be split into multiple pages, that is a reasonable suggestion. Posting it because the silence on this was starting to look like agreement. Go to post
Post #69 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
Documents that are mostly a worked example age better than documents that are mostly a summary, because the arithmetic does not change.
I am reporting what happened, not recommending it.
r.laurent, post #88: Documents that are mostly a worked example age better than documents that are mostly a summary, because the arithmetic does not change. Go to post
Post #88 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
Documents that are mostly a worked example age better than documents that are mostly a summary, because the arithmetic does not change.
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