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

Wed Sep 14 17:44:53 UTC 2005

On 9/14/05, Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:23 AM, JAY JG wrote:
> 
> >> From: Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> On 13/09/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote: But
> >> > keeping unencyclopedic ones hurts Wikipedia too.
> >>
> >> Does it? How?
> >>
> >
> > It reduces the credibility of the project.
> >
> > Jay.
> 
> I would rather have an encyclopedia that has a truly staggering
> amount of information but that some people dismiss because it has
> some silly articles than a well-respected but heavily incomplete
> encyclopedia. If I wanted that, I'd just go to Britannica.
> 
> -Snowspinner
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I said keeping unencyclopedic articles hurts Wikipedia. When people
dismiss Wikipedia they're often talk about stubs they find incomplete
and items they don't expect to find in encyclopedia. I mean
unencyclopedic entries which shouldn't be here to begin with as per
WP:NOT.