[WikiEN-l] The deletion paradox

Chris Jenkinson chris at starglade.org
Mon Jan 30 22:21:26 UTC 2006


Steve Bennett wrote:
> 1) Wikipedia has nearly a million articles. A very large number of
> them are crap. The more articles we delete, the better.

I don't agree with the first premise. Why is it better to delete "crap" 
articles than improve/rewrite them?

Chris

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