Cheney Shill wrote:
Why not just start applying the policy? Set a time limit. No RS, delete.
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It seems like there has been an extended and unstated policy to create essentially article shells simply to get the article count up and increase Wikipedia's popularity.
I've created my share of stubs and this is not even remotely the reason why. In most cases it's because I went looking for an article, didn't find it, and wanted to get it started so that hopefully others would add more detail. Why should I care about Wikipedia's gross article count?
Assume good faith, please.
WP has a high enough count and popularity. Why not start actually focusing on content detail and enforcing the long standing yet rarely applied policies?
[[Wikipedia:Reliable sources]] is not policy.
The alternative seems to be to continue to be the rear end of jokes about knowledge by consensus and hearsay like that on the 1/24 Colbert Report until WP loses what trust it has.
That's a false dilemma. While it's true that there are plenty of jokes out there about it, there's also a lot of respect and admiration as well. I don't see any big risk in continuing as we have been.