[WikiEN-l] Delete vs salvage (was: Context and POV (was: Effective bullying strategy))

Fri Jan 9 21:10:59 UTC 2004

Viajero wrote:
>It is fine in principal to be against deleting articles but that implies
>ACTION in concrete terms, but since we are a collection of volunteers,
>this doesn't always follow. While I have nothing against incomplete
>articles, of which there are obviously many in WP, I am strongly against
>have genuinely *bad* articles -- such as the Palestinian viewpoints
>article -- in the encyclopedia. They should be fixed immediately or
>deleted -- one or the other.

Nicely put! As a group of volunteers we can't expect that somebody will want 
to fix a bad article. So giving a bad article exposure for one last chance to 
at least become a stub is a good thing. 

Furthermore, the mere existence of bad articles encourages more bad articles 
to be added. Incomplete is one thing - that is relatively easy to fix - but 
bad is another and if often much more difficult to fix. 

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)