On 11/23/05, Brian Haws brian@bhaws.com wrote:
But eventualism does support a tag and bag system...during high volume periods, if garbage gets through, the vast majority of it will end up in orphan or lonelypage special pages. Now, there's a large backlog there but they are filtered in that way and can be examined, they are not lost in the vastness of Wikipedia. (if I understand those special pages correctly)
No it doesn't since eventualism position allows you to conclude there is nothing to be lost by deleting rubish
I see invalid speedy deletions everytime I look, valid content is lost, good new users are confused, annoyed and in some cases lost. If we're not going to honor speedy criteria then why even have them?
I gives people a lovely warm feeling.
Garbage content hurts us as does losing valid content...but we have control over deleting garbage...once good content is lost, for the most part it's just gone, we don't know when or if we'll ever get it back...
Eventualism means that you don't have to worry about when and juding by the number of new pages that surface on my watchlist there is no real question of if.
I think there's a way to make tag and bag work if we want to, keeping encyclodpedic content is what we're supposed to be doing...anyway, sorry for the rant....
Encyclodpedic content is a subjective term and therefor useless.
-- geni