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Deletionism is the only reason Wikipedia remains using. Without deletions, it would have sunk into the world of spam-trap and personal blog platform long ago.
by derleth 13y ago
Deletionism is the only reason Wikipedia remains using. Without deletions, it would have sunk into the world of spam-trap and personal blog platform long ago.
- ars 13y agoDelete the garbage, but leave the trivial. I hate deletionists.
- derleth 13y ago> Delete the garbage Which is still deletionism.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoWhy? If they define an article "A blog of John Ass", I just won't read it and my experience would not degrade. I still get nuclear physics in "Nuclear Physics" article, amn't I? I can't see how having more articles will make things worse.
- derleth 13y ago> I still get nuclear physics in "Nuclear Physics" article, amn't I? Not at the same level of quality, because they also won't be deleting the nonsense crank pseudo-science version of "Nuclear Physics" which would confuse you terribly. Deleting crap is one of the best ways to make the project as a whole useful.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoWell, I won't read that version, I'll only read the "real" one. Bonus points: journalists and common folk will stop pretending everything in wikipedia is true like they do now.
- derleth 13y ago> Well, I won't read that version, I'll only read the "real" one. You won't know which is which unless you already know enough to not need to look it up in a general reference such as Wikipedia. That's the point.