[WikiEN-l] GNAA Deleted!

Tue Nov 28 22:51:33 UTC 2006

I suggest "Delete anything that makes you uncomfortable."

On 11/28/06, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Jeff Raymond wrote:
> > This is when we start looking incredibly dumb as an organization when we
> > delete articles about subjects that obviously exist, are obviously well
> > know, and are actually verifiable, but because we can't bring ourselves
> to
> > trust a source that isn't available in dead tree form somewhere, we
> won't
> > have the article.  Doesn't make a lot of sense.
>
> This sounds like a classic example of stretching the wrong rule because
> the
> right rule doesn't exist.  It happens a lot in the real legal system, and
> usually causes more problems than it solves because once you've stretched
> a
> rule to cover the case, that becomes a precedent to interpret the rule in
> that manner forever.  (See: Commerce Clause.)
>
> WP:RS is already broken, especially when it comes to not allowing web and
> other self-published sources for non-academic subjects.  If you want to
> delete
> the GNAA article, I suggest either using Ignore All Rules to delete it, or
> coming up with a new rule.  I suggest a rule something like "A Wikipedia
> article may be deleted if merely creating and publicizing a neutral
> article
> advances the goal of the article's subject."  (Of course a full version of
> the rule would have to be worded more carefully so you don't delete
> articles
> about Wikipedia itself.)
>
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