[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales should reconsider

[James Farrar]

On 22/04/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Please don't mischaracterize those who disagree with you. I don't
> believe that "no change can ever improve everything", I just think that
> this specific change of being more aggressive about deleting biographies
> is not the best way to improve Wikipedia and may in fact be detrimental.
> As someone said elsethread, "we need to do something, this is something,
> therefore we need to do this" is flawed logic.

Known as "the Politician's syllogism", it has led to such great
moments in British history as the Suez Crisis and the Munich
Agreement. (Thanks to [[Sir Humphrey]] for that one...)