On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 13:09, Jason Williams wrote:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:37:08AM -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
On 2/24/03 7:03 AM, "Jason Williams" jason@jasonandali.org.uk wrote:
I know this has been discussed again and again, but can we *please* just delete articles that consist of a name, date of birth, place of employment, bland description of how much they loved their kids, and the fact that they happened to die on September 11th?
Like what? Name the entries.
Somebody has compiled a list at
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:September_11%2C_2001_Terrorist_Attack/Mem...
Bryan's list includes many entries that have more than the above. I see few with a bland description of how much they loved their kids. In particular most have links to external references.
And many of those listed have obvious significance, like [[Jeremy Glick]], [[Neil D. Levin]], and [[Carolyn Beug]]. But I concede that someone like [[Barbara Keating]] is uninteresting, because she never worked on a music video.
I was hoping that you would instead be pointing out entries such as [[Valerie Tschetter]] which is most likely apocryphal, or [[Matthew Rogan]], which is just a tribute.
There is absolutely no good reason to delete or move most of these entries. Rather, this is one of the few places where Wikipedia can beat traditional encyclopedias.