Fiction is endless. You can go delete all pokemon related pages. Some other
popular series will come and we will again have hundereds of articles. If
not tomorrow, in the next 5 years. Eventual ism suggests this 'problem' will
never go away regardless of how many people try to mass remove pages. You
may at best slow down the rate of increase. Eventually wikipedia will be
really popular on countries like India and China (which have worlds highest
number of English speakers). We will have many many articles on works of
fiction created in India. -
Bollywood<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood>related articles for
example.
You know, if the intention is removing OR and Cruft doing so w/o putting
anything in its place will result in the exact opposite. Now if you were to
convert a crufty article with OR to a sourced high quality encyclopedia
entry, I seriously doubt anyone would downgrade it back to a crufty OR.
Now instead of wasting everyones time (including your own) mass removing
pages people are working on, you set example creating exceptionally high
quality articles. For example the kind of sources you use may contain
information on other fiction related topics. And if not, at the very worst
case scenario you will have created one high quality article. People who
write articles typically want to create the best quality article possible.
Thats what they see as "best quality". If you show them a better example
chances are they would adjust articles they write to your "best quality".
A good edit is very hard to revert. A bad edit/delete or even a good delete
is not that hard to be reversed.
- White Cat
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 14/03/2008, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
There are plenty of things that should be removed
from some articles
on NPOV grounds but are OK in their own article.
Yes, but are all of them? I'd say very definitely not. And if not,
then we have a defacto notability standard.
FWIW 'People scratching themselves behind their ears' has been deleted
for not being 'encyclopedic, notable or of social significance'. There
you go then, notability.
-Matt
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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