Zoe wrote:
Is there something FORCING you to read these lists you dislike so much? Don't you have the option of ignoring them?
Although I've taken a different view on the value of the list in question (I think it's harmless), I will stick up for Saurabh here and say that I don't think Zoe's argument here is completely persuasive.
It could be used, after all, as an excuse to put all sorts of non-encyclopedic things into wikipedia. "If you don't like my article entries consisting of haiku about my cat, just ignore them." :-)
It's perfectly valid for people to question whether or not a particular entry or type of entry is good for wikipedia. Like I say, I didn't agree with Saurabh in this instance, but I thought the question was perfectly valid.
--Jimbo