Steve Bennett wrote:
Wikipedia suffers more from an incorrect deletion than
from an
incorrect keep. Sort of how society suffers more from the execution of
an innocent person than the incorrect non-execution of a guilty one.
I don't agree with your perception of the balance. An incorrect
deletion of an article is nearly nothing to us -- it can be undeleted
instantly by any admin. And most incorrect deletions will be of
marginal topics anyway.
And it's better to have nothing on a marginal topic than to have
something that is embarassing to us in any way at all.
More specifically: Wikipedia suffers from having vast
numbers of crap
articles. It doesn't suffer a great deal from having a single crap
article, if that article is not a copyvio or libel.
Right, but lurking copyvio and libel stuff is exactly what the core
problem is.
--Jimbo