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"Either we force people to write only about the things that we think are worthy ..." Who determines what is worthy and what isn't? They already have this probl

• ZeroGravitas 17y ago
  Generally notability and worthiness aren't correlated. You get really popular trash, and really obscure genius. The deletionist/inclusionist debate is orthogonal to whether a notable judge should have more words written about her than a notable item of low-brow and/or popular culture. This is a popular rhetorical argument from people who like to point to amusing discrepancies in their (mis)understanding of Wikipedia, but it's only by fudging the difference between worthy and notable that it even begins to make sense. Maybe "don't delete my obscure thing, look here's something else you've never heard of that is allowed in Wikipedia" doesn't have the same persuasive force as "don't deleted my obscure thing, look here's something you definitely have heard of but which you consider to be in some way stupid, inferior or low-class", even if it's logically flawed.