[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Thu Nov 6 19:11:47 UTC 2003

Delirium wrote:
> That doesn't make any sense.  I *can* be bothered to do the work, but I 
> purposely choose not to, because it's not appropriate to Wikipedia.  I 
> could mass-import stubs on Oklahoma City deaths, or WW2 soldier deaths, 
> or Iraq soldier deaths,

Let's do remember, though, that mass-importing raises a lot of
additional issues that are relevant here.  

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.

--Jimbo