Brock Weller wrote:
I never said they were useless, i argue that they dont
meet our
mission statement 'wikipedia is an encyclopedia', fail WP:NOT,
'indiscriminate collection of information' and are usually sourced to
trivia works or put together by the editors, failing WP:NOTABLE and
WP:OR. If you need help understanding my position, feel free to ask
for clarification before setting up strawmen, it will help you
effectively make your point next time :)
I'm sorry, but I've been around too long to be impressed by your mastery
of wiki rule-lawyering. Your reference to strawmen seems to fll within
the purview of the adage, "the pot calling the kettle black."
Ec
On 9/9/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca>
wrote:
> Brock Weller wrote:
>
>> Were not deleting the article, were deleting the unencyclopedic crap
>> sections. Your point is a strawman.
>>
> And since we're talking logical fallacies, you're begging the question.
> Calling the sections "unencyclopedic crap" presupposes that they're
> useless, whereas David and I have been arguing that a lot of what's in
> those sections is not crap but rather is just poorly formatted and
> integrated.