[WikiEN-l] Why changing the deletion process is a bad idea

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 23:16:10 UTC 2005


On 9/13/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/09/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote: But
> > keeping unencyclopedic ones hurts Wikipedia too.
> 
> Does it? How?
> 
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Well we don't despite what some people think have unlimited hard drive
space. It ups the number of artilces that need to be watched for
vandalism without giveing any worthwhile return. It risks increase
systemic bias even further and it means effort is being put towards
something wikipedia is not.

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geni



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