From: Delirium The Cunctator wrote:
On 11/7/03 3:23 AM, "Delirium" delirium@rufus.d2g.com wrote:
My main question is that it makes Wikipedia look ridiculous, and
makes
information harder to find. If I search for "Michael Jordan" and
get
4,000 results consisting of every person who has ever been named "Michael Jordan", that's *much* less useful than the current state,
and
a bit laughable. Wikipedia is not a geneological database after
all.
This is a straw man argument.
You are incorrect.
Actually, I'm not. Delirium claimed that "it" makes Wikipedia look ridiculous, without any definition of what "it" is. If he's arguing that the thousands of articles on Wikipedia about every person who has even been named Michael Jordan are what makes Wikipedia look ridiculous, then that argument is a straw man argument, because those thousands of articles *do not exist*.
Or to make it briefer: I'm not proposing making Wikipedia into a geneological database. Noone is. Delirium pointed out how ridiculous it would be if Wikipedia, under its current technology, were a geneological database.
That argument is a non sequitur.