[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Imagine the whole
>> encyclopaedia is evenly fleshed out, so that every town of 100,000
>> people in Namibia has an article as good as a town of 100,000 in the
>> US. Now is your local library in the top 10,000,000 articles?
>
>
> I only found one town of 100,000 in Namibia, and Wikipedia has an article
> on a library in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windhoek_Public_Library
>
> As far as I'm concerned my local library is in the top 10,000 articles.  If
> you want to even things out, try adding articles, not deleting my top
> 10,000.
>

Oh yeah, by the way, only 7% of Namibia speak English.  And only about 5%
are "Internet users". So the usefulness of having information on places in
Namibia pales in comparison to the usefulness of having information on
places here in Florida.

But deletionist arguments rarely consider usefulness.