[WikiEN-l] Crap vfd nominations

Fri Sep 30 18:06:27 UTC 2005

>From: Jack Lynch <jack.i.lynch at gmail.com>
>
>If we were making paper encyclopedias, this inclusionism deletionism
>thing would make sense. Both sides would have a case. But unless the
>information is false, unusable, or otherwise profoundly
>unencyclopedic, it should stay, we have enough "room". Possibly some
>articles will never be used, but thats better than people failing to
>find what their looking for.

The "Wikipedia isn't paper" argument is just the first item in a long list 
of  [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]], and that is well worth reviewing.  
The guiding principle here is "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia".  Just because 
there is room for something in an encyclopedia article doesn't mean that it 
should be in the article.  We are *editors*, and that implies discretion in 
what we do and do't include.

>The goal is for everyone to have access to the sum total of human knowlege.

Facts and knowledge are not the same thing.

Jay.