[WikiEN-l] The deletion paradox

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--- Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>   This is the deletion paradox as I see it:
> 
> 1) Wikipedia has nearly a million articles. A very large number of
> them are crap. The more articles we delete, the better.
> 2) Deleting articles causes unhappiness and tension. The more articles
> we delete, the more unhappiness and tension.
> 
> Anyone have a solution?

Instead of deleting crap articles, identify good articles. Present the good
articles as "Wikipedia proper", and inform readers that anything else has even
less than no guarantee of usefulness.

-- Matt

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto
Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com


		
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