On 26 Aug 2006, at 11:41, David Gerard wrote:
On 26/08/06, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
If you stop or significantly slow the creation of new, inappropriate articles, editors have more time to work on existing articles.
No, volunteers want to do what they want to do. If you stop them doing what they want to do, that doesn't mean they'll do what they don't want to do.
I agree. But one of the core aims of Wikipedia is to promote free content. By stopping people adding non-free content, some proportion of people who don't care whether their content is free or not will add free content.
It's a conflict between building an encyclopaedia and building a respository of free knowledge.