[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Thu Nov 6 17:45:53 UTC 2003

"Wikipedia is not paper, but it is also not a collection place
for trivia. It remains an encyclopedia, which remains that we do have
to
have some limits on what is and what is not interesting."

Here's how I interpret Jimbo's stance: "Wikipedia 1.0" (the eventual
edited version) will be an encyclopedia, but Wikipedia is not now
actually an encyclopedia. And to get to the eventual 1.0 version, it's
better to encourage contributors, even if that means that a lot of
non-encyclopedic content is added, because this kind of inclusionist
policy will encourage more encyclopedic content as well (by not pissing
people off by deleting things that they write).

I don't know if that's true, but I think his view on this is important,
and I'm tired of arguing about this (both here and on VfD), and I think
we need a firm policy. And I'm OK with this policy.

Alex