On 1/30/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
[originally sent yesterday but didn't seem to get through the moderator, perhaps due to my mail server?]
Hi all, This is the deletion paradox as I see it:
- Wikipedia has nearly a million articles. A very large number of
them are crap. The more articles we delete, the better. 2) Deleting articles causes unhappiness and tension. The more articles we delete, the more unhappiness and tension.
Anyone have a solution?
I would modify point 1 slightly: "... The more articles we get rid of, the better." and add point 3: "A high proportion of articles (72% is the last figure I'm aware of) are not watched by anybody."
The solution is pretty obvious, then: redirect (possibly after merging any useful information) the crap articles with abandon. I'm surprised, for instance, that we don't simply redirect each vanity band entry to [[Garage band]]; most of the authors won't be back to check, I suspect.
Kirill Lokshin
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