On Monday 25 October 2004 23:17, Mark Richards wrote:
material that we were not legally required to remove.
I am sorry I sometimes write my responses so quickly that I don't answer completely.
If you want to maintain the serious aura of an encyclopedia like Encyclopaedia Britannica you might want to delete articles you consider non-encyclopedic. However, I would not expect to find [[Slashdot trolling phenomena]] in Britannica, but this is exactly the reason why I do not read Britannica: It's too serious and full of general info without much trivia.
If you want to be a knowledge base then you should keep all legal information that is submitted to you. This is what I do at http://jnana.wikinerds.org
The point is, not all information is legal, so you need to have the ability to completely delete some articles.