[WikiEN-l] Partial solution to rampant deletionism

Fri Nov 7 21:40:25 UTC 2003

"Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com> schrieb:

> You're making the argument that since someday, some lonely person
> might have enough freetime to waste typing in thousands and thousands
> of entries in the manner of a robot, we have to delete any and every
> article that's too trivial today.
> 
> I think that are some missing steps in that deduction, so that the
> conclusion does not follow from the premises.

I'll add the missing steps:

Either these articles are having a positive effect on Wikipedia, and then
we should allow this hypothetical person or a bot, not ban them. Or these
articles are having a negative effect on Wikipedia, and then it's good
thing to delete them.

Andre Engels