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

Wed Sep 14 18:04:27 UTC 2005

>From: Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com>
>
>On Sep 14, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Phroziac wrote:
>
>>On 9/14/05, Snowspinner <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>Isn't that exactly why we exist?
>>
>
>I always thought so.

We exist to create a great encyclopedia.  I don't see how an encyclopedia 
filled with, as you put it, "silly articles", can ever be considered 
"great".

Jay.