Jimmy Wales wrote:
One of the checks and balances against triviality is
"can it be
confirmed?" Another important one is "has anyone bothered to write
about it?" Mass-imports defeat this latter check, and so are subject
to a higher degree of scrutiny than hand-edited entries.
I don't think the latter one's really relevant in this case: the only
reason the sep11 entries have drawn more work than the ww2 victims is
that Wikipedia did not exist during ww2. If it did, it's quite likely
everyone would've been adding entries as the body bags of their friends
came in.
-Mark