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Review cadence: how often is a page actually re-checked?

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a.thorneTL2Wiki editor29 Mar 2025#3

revision_history, post #1: Asking directly, because I could not find a straight answer: Review cadence: how often is a page actually re-checked? I would like to know what people here actually do about review cadence, as distinct from what is usually recommended. Those have diverged in every other subject I have looked at closely. Mine is below, with the… Go to post

Worth stating the null on review cadence before we explain it: the observation may be nothing. That possibility deserves a sentence and usually does not get one.

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SHermansenTL2Member Solution1 Apr 2025#5

Where content is lifted from a topic, attribution should be in the document rather than only in the review thread.

Worth saying I have only my own numbers here, and n is small.

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k.ogunleyeTL22 Apr 2025 · edited#6

SHermansen, post #5: Where content is lifted from a topic, attribution should be in the document rather than only in the review thread. Worth saying I have only my own numbers here, and n is small. Go to post

This is the answer, and the reason it is the answer is the more useful part.

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sterile_fileTL3Regular11 Apr 2025#16

Reading rather than answering, but this is the post I would point somebody at.

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VPoulsenTL3Regular15 Apr 2025#20

Post #19 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.

I would call the community position on review cadence likely rather than established, and I would be comfortable defending that hedge.

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