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What would be the drawback?

by aw3c2 17y ago

pohl 17y ago
It wastes 4K of storage that might otherwise be devoted to something more "notable", like a plot summary for last night's episode of Lost.
- ZeroGravitas 17y ago
  You're the only one that, however obliquely, answered my question ("Where would you draw the line?") so maybe you can explain to everyone else why you feel plot summaries from TV shows are not worthy, when the popular opinion seems to be that there is no reason to delete anything from Wikipedia.
  - ghaff 17y ago
    I dare say he was being sarcastic. While there is perhaps some minimal bar on notability, it seems that it has to be a very low bar on a site that, as noted, has entries for things like episodes of TV shows or obscure cartoon characters.
    - cema 17y ago
      Which is just as well (I hope you agree) - if people care enough about those cartoon characters, however obscure, let them have a wikipedia entry.
gchucky 17y ago
I think at some point it would turn Wikipedia into a huge advertisement. You'd have every person who ever came up with a product create an article about how theirs does all these great things and is better than the others. If you've ever taken a look at the recently created articles list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages) you can see examples of this. People copy-paste text from press releases (which violates Wiki's policy on copyright because all articles are technically released under CC-BY-SA) and write text that's really heavily on the advertisements. And I think that there really needs to be some threshold in place, if only to keep that stuff at bay.
- nopassrecover 17y ago
  Then these articles would be flagged as commercials or violating copyright - it's a separate issue.
- aw3c2 17y ago
  Wikipedia tries to have "no personal point of view" and neutral articles. Advertising would still not be ok. That is a different issue. I myself would be fine with articles about This-andthat Inc's latest gadget if there are facts and information inside.

What would be the drawback?

by aw3c2 17y ago

What would be the drawback?

pohl 17y ago

It wastes 4K of storage that might otherwise be devoted to something more "notable", like a plot summary for last night's episode of Lost.

ZeroGravitas 17y ago
You're the only one that, however obliquely, answered my question ("Where would you draw the line?") so maybe you can explain to everyone else why you feel plot summaries from TV shows are not worthy, when the popular opinion seems to be that there is no reason to delete anything from Wikipedia.
- ghaff 17y ago
  I dare say he was being sarcastic. While there is perhaps some minimal bar on notability, it seems that it has to be a very low bar on a site that, as noted, has entries for things like episodes of TV shows or obscure cartoon characters.
  - cema 17y ago
    Which is just as well (I hope you agree) - if people care enough about those cartoon characters, however obscure, let them have a wikipedia entry.

gchucky 17y ago

I think at some point it would turn Wikipedia into a huge advertisement. You'd have every person who ever came up with a product create an article about how theirs does all these great things and is better than the others. If you've ever taken a look at the recently created articles list (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPages) you can see examples of this. People copy-paste text from press releases (which violates Wiki's policy on copyright because all articles are technically released under CC-BY-SA) and write text that's really heavily on the advertisements. And I think that there really needs to be some threshold in place, if only to keep that stuff at bay.

nopassrecover 17y ago
Then these articles would be flagged as commercials or violating copyright - it's a separate issue.
aw3c2 17y ago
Wikipedia tries to have "no personal point of view" and neutral articles. Advertising would still not be ok. That is a different issue. I myself would be fine with articles about This-andthat Inc's latest gadget if there are facts and information inside.