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>>> "immense damage he was doing" > What damage is he doing? As a Scot and someone who is rather fond of Scots (which I grew up speaking) I'm somewhat pleasant
by ardy42 6y ago
>>> "immense damage he was doing"
> What damage is he doing? As a Scot and someone who is rather fond of Scots (which I grew up speaking) I'm somewhat pleasantly surprised that anyone is sufficiently interested to have a go at creating Wikipedia entries!
You're really responding to the parent comment of mine, but I'll answer anyway:
The damage he was doing was making inaccurate or ignorant contributions to a reference work, which are at best no use to anyone and at worst things that will mislead others. Merely "creating Wikipedia entries" is not necessarily a positive act. For instance, no one wants me to create entries about Scotland based on my memories of the plot of Braveheart, no matter how enthusiastically I do it. Created entries need to meet minimum standards or be brought to those standards quickly.
IIRC, Wikipedia strongly discourages blindly using machine translation because the resulting articles are so bad (to the point of sometimes having sentences that say the exact opposite of the source), and it sounds like what this guy was doing was actually worse than that.