From: Jack Lynch <jack.i.lynch(a)gmail.com>
If we were making paper encyclopedias, this inclusionism deletionism
thing would make sense. Both sides would have a case. But unless the
information is false, unusable, or otherwise profoundly
unencyclopedic, it should stay, we have enough "room". Possibly some
articles will never be used, but thats better than people failing to
find what their looking for.
The "Wikipedia isn't paper" argument is just the first item in a long list
of [[Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not]], and that is well worth reviewing.
The guiding principle here is "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Just because
there is room for something in an encyclopedia article doesn't mean that it
should be in the article. We are *editors*, and that implies discretion in
what we do and do't include.
The goal is for everyone to have access to the sum
total of human knowlege.
Facts and knowledge are not the same thing.
Jay.