Nathaniel Sheetz wrote:
On his userpage, George argues this better than me,
but basically the
argument is that sometimes, nothing is better than something. I'm sure that
many of the articles in that backlog actually do more damage than good to
the project, because someone who finds them is going to judge the quality of
wikipedia as a whole based on those articles. Not finding anything, on the
other hand, will probably not result in as great a negative reaction.
This is pure speculation
That said, I'm not sure what should be done about
it. Deletion is tempting,
but shouldn't be applied haphazardly. I wouldn't be opposed to the creation
of an AfD criterion (not CSD) that allowed for the deletion of truly
unorganized and difficult to use text.
The implication is that sufficient information is already there, but
it's badly written. It sounds like the article is a candidate for
rewriting and reorganization rather than deleting.
Ec