[WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism

Fri Nov 7 13:50:29 UTC 2003

On 11/7/03 3:23 AM, "Delirium" <delirium at rufus.d2g.com> wrote:

> Jake Nelson wrote:
> 
>> I've seen a lot of dodging of the "what does it hurt?" question, the most
>> I've seen is "it DOES hurt" or "it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia". The
>> first response isn't an answer, and begs the question to be repeated. As to
>> the second... what do you define an encyclopedia as? LKWR is the only one
>> I've seen outline criteria (back on 10/31), 4 of which describe Wikipedia
>> excellently, and I disagree with the other 2.
>>  
>> 
> My main question is that it makes Wikipedia look ridiculous, and makes
> information harder to find.  If I search for "Michael Jordan" and get
> 4,000 results consisting of every person who has ever been named
> "Michael Jordan", that's *much* less useful than the current state, and
> a bit laughable.  Wikipedia is not a geneological database after all.
> 
This is a straw man argument.