From: Delirium
The Cunctator wrote:
>On 11/7/03 3:23 AM, "Delirium" <delirium(a)rufus.d2g.com> wrote:
>
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>>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.