[WikiEN-l] Re: Deletion policy needed

Fri Oct 24 16:40:28 UTC 2003

Alex Rosen wrote:
> If you think that Wikipedia is for any kind of knowledge whatsoever,
> then you're right. If you think (as I do) that Wikipedia should only be
> for topics of a certain importance, then in fact most of the pages
> listed there should be deleted. 
> 
> Again, I find it amazing that we have no policy on this. The deletion
> process cannot be fixed until we agree on the most basic criteria for
> deletion. We're supposed to delete pages that "will simply will never
> become encyclopedia articles", yet we have no basic agreement about what
> this means.

Thank you, Alex.  I couldn't agree more; the process can't possibly get 
fixed until we agree in general terms on what should be deleted and what 
should be kept.

Louis