On 11/23/05, Brian Haws <brian(a)bhaws.com> wrote:
But eventualism does support a tag and bag
system...during high volume periods, if garbage gets
through, the vast majority of it will end up in orphan
or lonelypage special pages. Now, there's a large
backlog there but they are filtered in that way and
can be examined, they are not lost in the vastness of
Wikipedia. (if I understand those special pages
correctly)
No it doesn't since eventualism position allows you to conclude there
is nothing to be lost by deleting rubish
I see invalid speedy deletions everytime I look,
valid
content is lost, good new users are confused, annoyed
and in some cases lost. If we're not going to honor
speedy criteria then why even have them?
I gives people a lovely warm feeling.
Garbage
content hurts us as does losing valid content...but we
have control over deleting garbage...once good content
is lost, for the most part it's just gone, we don't
know when or if we'll ever get it back...
Eventualism means that you don't have to worry about when and juding
by the number of new pages that surface on my watchlist there is no
real question of if.
I think there's a way to make tag and bag work if
we
want to, keeping encyclodpedic content is what we're
supposed to be doing...anyway, sorry for the rant....
Encyclodpedic content is a subjective term and therefor useless.
--
geni