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

Wed Sep 14 18:01:22 UTC 2005

>From: Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com>
>
>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.
>

The issue isn't just silly articles; that said things like our Ashlee 
Simpson coverage have already been the subject of public ridicule, and those 
articles are some of our best written trivia.

Jay.