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Is Wikipedia useful today? Absolutely. Does deletionism sometimes leads to embarrassing results? As witnessed, it does. Would less deletionism lead to Wikiped
by thriftwy 9y ago
Is Wikipedia useful today? Absolutely.
Does deletionism sometimes leads to embarrassing results? As witnessed, it does.
Would less deletionism lead to Wikipedia becoming "not really usable across a wide range of domains"? I can't see how it would, neither could you.
So I would argue that Wikipedia deletion policy is considerably suboptimal.
- posterboy 9y agoWikipedia is like a subgraph of the internet. Are there good reasons for certain sites to be blocked on the net? Yes? Should I just be allowed to call you a stupid plucktwit as if I was f'in Linus Torvalds (just for illustration purposes (psyched, I'm really enjoying this(I'm not even making the turn around to illustrate the analogy to Wikipedia any further)))? I guess deletion also serves to keep editors in check, if they don't meet quality standards. It's simply more difficult to delete a deletion-privileged user who has also a number of contributions under the belt. This is similar to police corruption, or shirky's principle.
- thriftwy 9y agoNo, there are no good reasons for sites to be blocked on the net. Also no reason for valid articles to be deleted from Wikipedia. I am against corruption and this is awful. Nobody should be reasoning this.
- posterboy 9y agoif you try to censor the censors you can only loose. corolarily, it would be nice if there were no censors.