[WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism

Fri Nov 7 22:08:17 UTC 2003

> From: Andre Engels
> 
> "The Cunctator" <cunctator at kband.com> schrieb:
> > I believe you mean to use the conditional tense ("Either these
articles
> > would have a positive effect..."), not the present tense.
> >
> > Those steps still do not connect the hypothetical thousands of
> > mass-imported entries to actual "trivial" entries.
> 
> I think it does. An entry is useful or it is not. It's as simple as
> that. Usefulness does not depend on having been mass-imported or being
> a single page - or if it does, it goes in the other direction because
of
> completeness.
> 
That's a completely different argument, one which also has flaws (the
primary one being that it is not true that "an entry is useful or it is
not"--utility is a continuous, relative measure.)