[WikiEN-l] Re: How to bring back people who don't want to bother?

[Peter Mackay]

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of geni
> Sent: Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:39
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: How to bring back people who 
> don't want to bother?
> 
> On 1/12/06, Brock Batsell <wikipedia at theskeptik.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:39 PM, geni wrote:
> > >
> > > So? I'm free to chose to write about what i want rathen than what 
> > > other people want to rant about.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand your argument.  In my opinion, if 
> someone is 
> > willing to go to the trouble to list an article on AfD, 
> they should be 
> > willing to go to the trouble to improve it to non-deletable 
> standards.
> 
> Why? I might know that an article on an area of chemistry is a hoax.
> Doesn't mean I have the slightest interest in writeing about 
> that bit of chemistry.

Likewise, if something or someone isn't notable, all the rewriting in the
world isn't going to make it so. [[Vicarius Filii Dei]] is an example. Lots
of pictures and pseudosources to cover a myth that Snopes doesn't even
bother listing.

Peter (Skyring)