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My apologies — I communicated that poorly. I had meant that as a facetious way of saying "niggling issues," rather than a specific indictment. My point was prim
by chc 14y ago
My apologies — I communicated that poorly. I had meant that as a facetious way of saying "niggling issues," rather than a specific indictment. My point was primarily that deleting a questionably notable article does not contribute significantly to the value that people get out of Wikipedia. They are largely orthogonal concerns. I don't think Wikipedia would lose one iota of value in the common person's eye if (without loss of generality) an article on a band in Wisconsin were allowed to remain. Wikipedia was not richer during the period Nemerle's article was deleted.
Incidentally, I just looked over Wikipedia's notability rules and they seem to be a bit more reasonable than they were when I used to edit things there, so props to them for making progress on that issue.
- tptacek 14y agoNo apology necessary. So, I mostly agree with you: the value of deleting a barely-non-notable article is marginal. But as I've shown I think pretty effectively upthread, with the link to the URL pattern for AfD debates, that's not the problem that confronts Wikipedia; instead, editors on WP are dealing with a torrent of extremely non-notable articles, into which valid articles are, due most often to poor editing, occasionally getting caught up.